Corporal Leonard Briggs

Army Number: 18667

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Clarborough, Nottinghamshire. Son of Tom and Matilda Briggs, of Clarborough, Nottinghamshire. He was a coal miner at Shireoaks Colliery, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, prior to enlisting 9th November 1914 at Worksop. He went to France 18th May 1915  and was killed in action, 31st July 1917, age 27, in the attack near Bellewaarde Lake, near Ypres, Belgium. 

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Corporal Leonard Briggs is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Retford War Memorial, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. 
St, Mary and St. Cuthbert Priory Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. 
St. Luke’s Church War Memorial, Shireoaks, Nottinghamshire. 
St. Saviours Church War Memorial, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private John William Briggs, 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.