Private 24083 Victor Leaver
Regiment/Unit: King's Shropshire Light Infantry - 7th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 20
Date of death: 22nd of August 1916
Born: Reading, Berks
Burial / Memorial: Abbeville Communal Cemetery - III. A. 10.
Census details:
1901 - 5 years old Victor is living at Sleight Cottages, Potterne, Wilts with parents Frances J (42), Eleanor (35) and three siblings: Gwendoline (11), Montague (6), Bertie (4). 1911 - Sees 15 years old 'Under Carter' Victor is living at Rynehill, Kingham, Chipping Norton with parents Francis (51), Eleanor (46) and four siblings: Montague (16), Bertie (14), Ivy (9), Mervy (6).
Notes:
Victor is [url=lmem.php?lmem=21]Remembered on St Marks War Memorial.[/url] Also remembered on [url=http://www.greglewin.co.uk/Memorial/Astley.php]Astley Abbotts Parish Church - War Memorial[/url] Victor's brother Montague enlisted at St Helens and on his attestation was Bridgnorth crossed out and replaced with 9, Sandy Lane Moss Bank, St Helens. Age taken from census.
Victor is [url=lmem.php?lmem=21]Remembered on St Marks War Memorial.[/url] Also remembered on [url=http://www.greglewin.co.uk/Memorial/Astley.php]Astley Abbotts Parish Church - War Memorial[/url] Victor's brother Montague enlisted at St Helens and on his attestation was Bridgnorth crossed out and replaced with 9, Sandy Lane Moss Bank, St Helens. Age taken from census.
[pic]tpics/V_Leaver_KSLI.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private Victor Leaver at Abbeville Communal Cemetery
(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Dufay.)[/caption]
