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The Roll lists his address as 34 St Leonard's Street.
(CWGC records that Private Leonard Vines, regimental number 18412 died on 18/8/1919 having served in 6th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave 6.3.3393 at Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough. [Due to an administrative error when he died, his regimental number was incorrectly recorded in CWGC's casualty registers and on his headstone as 18415. Having been alerted to the issue in 2015, CWGC have now corrected their database, and his headstone will be amended in due course].
The birth of Leonard Vines was registered in Peterborough District in 1887. When he was baptised on 5/6/1887 at St Paul's Church in Peterborough as the son of William and Elizabeth Vines, his date of birth was recorded in the Baptism register as 11/4/1887. On the 1891 census Leonard was living with his parents at 44 New England, Peterborough. His mother died in 1899. On the 1901 census Leonard was living with his father at 221 GNR Cottages, New England, Peterborough. On the 1911 census Leonard was an inmate at Upper Mounts Prison in Northampton.
Leonard's Army pension file records that he enlisted on 6/5/1915 as a Private in the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment under regimental number 18412, and that he had married Alice Jane Symonds on 24/12/1913. The Medal Rolls record that he first went to France on 29/9/1915 and transferred to the 6th Battalion. According to his pension file, he sustained a shrapnel wound to his right thigh on 23/7/1916, for which he was hospitalised in Plymouth from 25/7/1916 to 29/8/1916. Having recovered, he returned overseas on 17/8/1917. On 22/3/1918 he sustained a gunshot wound that fractured two of his left ribs and was taken Prisoner of War. He was treated at Rustedt Hospital, and remained a Prisoner of War until 19/12/1918. Having been repatriated, on 11/4/1919 he was recommended for a pension, giving his intended address as 34 St Mary's Street, Peterborough. He transferred to the Army Reserves on 18/4/1919. His death, aged 32, on 18/8/1919 was registered in Cambridge District).