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Military service
Service number:
634116
Age:
22
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Birth:
September 15, 1895
Death:
November 3, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IX. E. 11.
Additional information
Son of Peter Munroe and his wife Ellen McDermid, of Maxville, Ontario.
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Leonard pictured with his older brother Capt Findlay Munroe. "Leonard Peter Munroe was born 15 September 1898, the son of Peter Thomas > Munroe and his wife Ellen McDermid, of Maxville, Ontario. As a student he enrolled in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 1 May 1916 at Maxville, Ontario. After initial training at Camp Barriefield (Kingston, Ontario), he sailed from Halifax on the S.S. Mauretania on 25 October 1916 as part of 154 th Overseas Battalion (Highlanders) C.E.F. to England. He was transferred to 21st Battalion on 4 May 1917 and joined that unit in Belgium 31 May 1917. He was reported Killed in Action 3 or 4 November 1917 in the Passendaele area. He was pre-deceased by his brother Walter. He served with his older brother Findlay (a Captain/ Medical Officer) in the 154 th Battalion. He also had three sisters Lily, Janie and his twin Edith." -
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Lance Corporal Leonard Munroe
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Lance Corporal Leonard Munroe
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Commemorated on:
Page 299 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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