Notes
The Roll lists his address as 26 Green Lane, and states that he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal. It records that he died on 19/9/1914, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Lance Corporal Leonard Olsen, regimental number 9592, died aged 19 on 18/9/1914 serving in D Company, 1st Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on La Ferte Sous Jouarre Memorial in France. They record him as the son of Thomas and Harriet Olsen. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Leonard was a native of Woodston who enlisted in Northampton; it records that he died on 18/9/1914. The Medal Rolls record that he went to France on 13/8/1914. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on 18/9/1914, and that his father Thomas was his legatee. On the 1901 census Leonard had been living with his parents Thomas and Harriet at 23 St Margaret's Road, Fletton. On the 1911 census he was living with them at 17 St Margaret's Road, Old Fletton. His birth had been registered in the Peterborough District in 1895).