Lance Corporal 18913 Arthur Edward LEESON

Lance Corporal 18913 Arthur Edward Leeson{gallery}L/Cpl A E Leeson{/gallery}2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment
Killed in action in the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), France and Flanders, 5th August 1917, aged 20

• Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 37
  
• Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Albert and Sarah Ann Leeson [nee Ford] 
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments | Vicarage Street School

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for L/Cpl Harrison
• Ypres Memorial
• South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)

The hyperlink to the CWGC page is to the wrong man!! Needs sorting.

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born Jul Qtr 1897 and baptised 7 Nov 1897 at Chilvers Coton
• Attended Vicarage Street School
  
• Lived at 73 Springdale Cottages, Attleborough [1901 to 1915]
  
• Employed as an errand boy [1911]
• Employed as a printer [1915]
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton 26 Apr 1915. Arrived in France 12 Oct 1915