Notes
The Roll lists his address as 12 Stone Lane. It incorrectly records that he died on 29/12/1917.
(CWGC records that Gunner L Sharman, regimental number 891380, died aged 21 on 9/12/1917 serving in B Battery, 270th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, and is buried in grave J.22 at Ramleh War Cemetery in Israel and Palestine. They record him as the son of Jesse and Letitia Sharman of 12 Stone Lane, Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects likewise record that Leonard died on 9/12/1917, at Kada Jafa in Palestine, and that his mother Letitia was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that his former regimental number in the RFA was 4575. His Medal Index Card records that he was sent to France on 19/11/1915. The birth of Leonard Sharman was registered in 1896 in Spilsby District, Lincolnshire. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Jesse and Letitia in Stone Lane, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Willoughby, Lincolnshire. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 12 Stone Lane in Peterborough. Leonard is also named on the Northamptonshire Battery RFA War Memorial that hangs in Peterborough Town Hall- see War Memorials Register ref 8470).