Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Frederick Wellington Leonard
In memory of:
Gunner Frederick Wellington Leonard
April 26, 1917
Military Service
84157
26
Army
Canadian Field Artillery
6th Bde.
Additional Information
Son of John and Eleanor Leonard, of Cross Keys, Mon., South Wales.
Commemorated on Page 274 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
VI. G. 10.
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Newspaper clipping – From the London Free Press July 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the London Free Press July 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper Clipping – Obituary photograph from the South Wales Argus, Newport, Monmouthshire, UK, published at the time of death. (http://www.newportsdead.shaunmcguire.co.uk) -
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Family Marker – Memorial to Frederick Wellington LEONARD in Risca Cemetery, Risca, Wales.
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