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Location
In Mount Joy Cemetery, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight Description Kerbstones on family grave. Cross has been displaced. Grave Location : D.3 2052 |
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Headstone
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Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OF CECIL JACK LEAL, LATE MACHINE GUN CORPS, THIRD SON OF ERNEST JOHN AND HANNAH LEAL, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE RYDE COUNTY HOSPITAL ON MAY 31ST 1919 + ALSO OF CORP. ERNEST LEONARD CHAMBERS LEAL, R.E. WHO WAS KILLED IN FRANCE ON APRIL 9TH 1915 AGED 24 YEARS Name : Cecil Jack Leal. Son of Ernest John and Hannah Leal, of 61, Carisbrooke Rd., Newport, Isle of Wight. Born 1894, Whippingham, Isle of Wight. Commemorated on these Memorials : Newport Newport (Barton) St Paul's Church Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial Service details : Private 81299 Cecil Jack Leal, Machine Gun Corps CWGC record ... Service records : found - some details given below Medal Index Card : British War Medal, Victory Medal. Further Information Census 1901 : Family at Cross Lane, Newport. Census 1911 : Family at 61 Carisbrooke Road, Newport. Cecil is shown as a printers's apprentice. Cecil Jack Leal enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps on 24 May 1915, a few weeks after the death of his brother Ernest. He was posted to 11th Training Reserve Battallion and then sent to France on active service near Etaples. He was wounded in 1918. He was discharged as medically unfit for service in 1918 and received the Silver War Badge and King's Certificate. He died in Ryde on 31 May 1919. ----------- Sapper 22648 Ernest Leonard Leal, Royal Engineers CWGC record ... |
Page last updated : 11 January 2010 (added biographical details)