Dennis Leonard L/Cpl 4457982
Personnel Entry
Name Dennis Leonard
Army number 4457982
Rank Lance Corporal.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age (At the time of his death). Not yet known.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date as yet, but probably Summer 1939. Posted to the ? 9th Battalion. Posted to 12th Battalion DLI 1/9/1939. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served B.E.F.? Served Iceland? Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xvi) 9/4/44.
Company/Battery HQ Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known beyond Lance Corporal.
Wounded Not yet known.
Prisoner of War Apparently not.
Died/Killed in action Date of death not yet known.
Home address 40, Toad Pool, West Auckland.
Source table 1TS
L/Cpl Leonard Dennis joined the DLI Association in November 1971, giving his residence as St Helens Auckland.
