Second Lieutenant Leonard Drake

Army Number: n/a formerly Sergeant 959, 10th btn Royal Fusiliers

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of W. H. and Mary Ann Drake, of 18, Parliament Hill, Hampstead, London. Educated At Edinburgh.Went to France 31 st July 1916 with the Royal Fusiliers. Commissioned 31st December 1915 into the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) and joined the 11th btn10th August 1916. and was wounded at Le sars, France 28th September 1916. Died of wounds 18th October 1916, aged 26.

Buried: Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 3. Row E. Grave 25.