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Rank : Corporal

Army Number : 11767

Unit : 6th Bn

Biography :

Served with the 110th Brigade (6th, 7th, 8th, 9th Battalions) during World War One. Discharged 19.2.1919.

Medal Card: Cooley Leonard - Leic R - Pte 11757 - a/LCpl - Victory, British War and 1915 Star - disembarked France 29.7.1915 - discharged 19.2.1919.

UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 for Leonard Cooley British War Medal and Victory Medal Leicestershire Regiment Piece 0934: Leicestershire Regiment: 11757 LCpl Cooley Leonard 6th Leic R - a/Cpl.

UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 for L Cooley 1914-1915 Star Leicestershire Regiment Piece 2664: Leicestershire Regiment: 11767 - Pte Cooley L - date of disembarkation 29.7.1915 - transferred Cl Z 19.2.1919.

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Tugby & Keythorpe WW1:

Further info: Leonard Cooley was born in Leicester in 1872 son of John, a shoe clicker and Mary Clark. He joined the army at the age of 18 and served for thirteen years in various places around the world including Bermuda, Nova Scotia and Egypt. During the period from 1889 to 1902 he had a number of medical issues including gonorrhoea, influenza, dysentery and typhoid fever. He had a less than perfect
military record being absent from tattoo numerous times, breaking out of barracks, often drunk and not following orders. He and his wife Elizabeth Evans who he had married in 1897, were living at Rose Cottage when he re-enlisted for the war on 21st August 1914 at the age of 45. He was private 11767 in the 110th Brigade in 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Battalions of the Leicestershire Regiment. He was appointed a Lance Corporal "in the field" in France in October 1915. He received the 1914-15 star and other medals and was demobilised in July 1919. He and his wife were living at Lake Cottage in 1929. Leonard died in Leicester in 1938.

Period of Service : 1910s

Conflicts : WW1