Private Leonard Chandler
Army Number : 1865
Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Ordsall, Nottinghamshire. Son of Charles and Mary Ann Chandler, of 4 Darrell Road, Retford, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted at Retford and went to France 28th June 1915 and suffered gunshot wounds to his right thigh, 5th April 1916. He was transferred to 30 Casualty Clearing Station at Aubigny, France, 6th April 1916 and died of these wounds 15th April 1916, aged 18.
Buried : Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 1. Row A. Grave 40.
Private Leonard Chandler is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Retford War Memorial, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
St Saviours Church War memorial, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
His brother Private Arthur Clarke Chandler, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.