5932603, Private, Leonard EDGLEY
Aged 26
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Born 11th July 1916 [Newmarket 3b:781] to Samuel William and Jessie Susannah EDGLEY (née SNOWDEN) of 4 Semper Cottages, Newmarket.
In the 1939 register he was a gas works labourer with his parents Sam [11-2-1877] a cow man, Jessie [4-7-1878] at 4 Jarvis' Yard, Mill Hill, Newmarket. (same address as 4 Semper Cottages). An ironmonger's yardman before the war, his death, at home, was from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. His elder brother Alfred died later in 1943, in Burma, a prisoner of the Japanese. see here . His uncle William SNOWDEN of Exning died in the Great War see here |
It is not known when Leonard's illness started and if this perhaps saved him from going
to Singapore with his unit.
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