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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC and other Headstones -
- Carisbrooke Mount Joy Cemetery : C J Leal -

Location

In Mount Joy Cemetery, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Kerbstones on family grave. Cross has been displaced.
Grave Location : D.3 2052
Headstone

Mount Joy Cemetery : C J Leal
 
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.
 
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Sapper 22648 Ernest Leonard Leal, Royal Engineers

CWGC record ...

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Page last updated : 11 January 2010 (added biographical details)


 
 

 
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