Notes
The Roll lists his address as 52 Eastgate, and is noted that he was Mentioned in Dispatches on 7 Nov 1917. It states he died on 22/3/1917, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Corporal Leonard Richard Ward, regimental number 64122, died aged 23 on 24/3/1918 serving in 58th Battalion of the Machine Gun Corps, and is commemorated on Pozieres Memorial in France. They record him as the son of Mr & Mrs S Ward of 52 Eastgate, Peterborough. They do not record any Mention in Despatches.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Peterborough who enlisted at Lincoln, and that he served in the Lincolnshire Regiment under regimental number 26120 before joining the Machine Gun Corps. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record him as an Acting Corporal, stating that his death on 24/3/1918 in France was presumed, and that his father Samuel was his legatee.
Leonard's Army service file records that he was aged 23 and living at 52 Eastgate in Peterborough when he enlisted as a Private in the Lincolnshire Regiment under regimental number 3/26120 on 28/6/1916. His parents were recorded as Samuel and Susan Ward. Leonard's file records that he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps on 12/10/1916, and that he embarked on 16/3/1917. On 24/9/1917 he was appointed as unpaid Acting Lance Corporal, and was appointed as Acting Corporal on 29/1/1918. He was reported as missing on 24/3/1918.
Leonard's Mention in Dispatches while serving as a Lance Corporal in the Lincolnshire Regiment was published in the London Gazette Supplement 30434 dated 14/12/1917; Page 13230).