BAGULEY L.
Leonard Baguley
Private 71291
15th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regt)
Leonard Baguley died on 25th August 1917, aged 23 years*, and was buried in the TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme, France.
He was born on 5th November 1894 at New Cross, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He was the son of Ephraim Baguley, a Collier, and his wife Eliza Ann (formerly Hemms). The couple married at St Mary, Sutton-in-Ashfield in July 1891.
Leonard Baguley was the husband of Beatrice H. Baguley, of 35 Alfred Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Notts. His brother William Baguley is also remembered on the War Memorial.
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Baguley, Private Leonard, Sherwood Foresters.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
LEONARD BAGULEY, born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts., Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield), 15th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Private 71291, died of wounds, France & Flanders, 25th August 1917.
Research by Heather Faulkes
* www.cwgc.org has age as 25 years.
