Private Leonard Saxton

Army Number: 200650 formerly 2690

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Went to France on 25th June 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.