Army Number: formerly 19145 York and Lancaster Regiment.

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment.

Born in 1895 at Nottingham and resided at 77 Latham Street, Bulwell, Nottinghamshire He was a coal miner prior to enlisting, on 7th September 1914 into the 9th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment. He went to France on 27th August 1915 and was wounded in July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, he was then invalided home to a military hospital in Lancashire. He was commissioned into the 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 31st October 1917 and was killed in action at “Happy Valley’ near Bray-sur-Somme on 26th March 1918, aged 22.

Commemorated : Pozieres Memorial, France. Panel 52 – 54.

Lieutenant Leonard Whalley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary the Virgin Church War Memorial, Bulwell, Nottingham.

His father Sergeant T. Whalley M.P.S.C (Military Provost Staff Corps) and elder brother Sergeant T. M. Whalley R.F.A (Royal Field Artillery) also served.