Private Leonard Mountford

Private Leonard Mountford

Army Number: 10507

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Basford, Nottingham. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Mountford, of 114, Park Lane, Old Basford, Nottingham. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting in 1907 at Nottingham. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th September 1914, when the battalion was ordered to retake trenches taken by the Germans at the head of the Troyon Valley, France, during the Battle of the Aisne.

Buried: Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension, France. Plot 6. Row C. Grave 20.

Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension, France.

Private Leonard Mountford is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Aiden’s Church Roll of Honour, Basford, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.