Private Leo Cullen

Army Number: 28491

Battalion: 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Lincoln. Son of William T. and Jane Cullen, of 19, Spa Buildings, Lincoln. He enlisted at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire and was killed in action, 3rd September 1916, aged 19, in the British attack near Beaumont Hamel, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, France. Plot 2. Row B. Grave 40.

Private Leo Cullen is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Lincoln War Memorial, Lincoln.
St. Swithin’s Church War Memorial, Lincoln.

His brother Private Henry Joseph Cullen, Lincolnshire Regiment also fell in the Great War.