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Détails victime
Informations personnelles
- WALL
- LC
- LEONARD COMER
- West Kirby
- Cheshire, England
- Only son of Charles Comer Wall and Kate Wall (nee Earle), of Hill Top, West Kirby, Cheshire.
- Terra Nova School at Birkdale; Clifton College, Bristol
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His mother bought his horse ‘Blackie’ from the Army and he was brought back to England. He was lent to the Territorial Army Riding School in Liverpool until he was pensioned off. He became blind, and when he died at the age of 35 years in 1942 he still carried shrapnel scars. ‘Blackie’ is buried along with Leonard’s medals at the RSPCA Horses Rest at Hunts Cross, Liverpool.
Données militaires
- 1914
- Lieutenant
- Mentioned in Despatches
- 275th Brigade Royal Field Artillery "A" Bty.
- 55th Division
- B.E.F.
- Commissioned as a temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the West Lancashire Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery on 29 August 1914; to France on 9 September 1915; promoted to full Lieutenant on 1 June 1917
Décès
- 8 June
- Killed in action - German shell burst, shrapnel wounds; his horse Blackie was also wounded;
- 9 June 1917
- 20
- XIII - B - 10
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