The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private L Snelling

Photograph by "Military Historian"

Private Leonard SNELLING, G/15554, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 10th February 1917, age 29.

Born Thursley, Surrey, son of *Walter & Maria Snelling.

1st June 1888, St Michael & All Angels, Thursley, Surrey, baptsim of Leonard Snelling, son of *Walter & Maria Snelling, High Court Bottom, Thursley, Surrey.

1891 Census - 24 High Court Vale, Thursley, Surrey - *Walter Snelling, head, age 42, married, broom maker, brush, employed, born Thursley, Surrey; Maria Snelling, wife, age 41, married, born Elstead, Surrey; Walter Snelling, son, age 14, broom makers assistant, employed, born Thursley, Surrey; Henry Snelling, son, age 12, farm servant, employed, born Thursley, Surrey; Charles Snelling. son, age 8, scholar, born Thursley, Surrey; Sydney Snelling, son, age 6, scholar, born Thursley, Surrey; Albert Snelling, son, age 4, born Thursley, Surrey; Leonard Snelling, son, age 2, born Thursley, Surrey; Robert Snelling, son, age 9 months, born Thursley, Surrey.

* 1894 June, Hambledon Registration District, Walter Snelling died age 45.

1898 December, Farnham, Surrey Registration District, Maria Snelling married Edward Parker.

1911 Census - Lion Lane, Shottermill, Haslemere, Surrey - Edward Parker, head, age 54, married 12 years, no children, general labourer, worker, born Crowthorne, Berkshire; Maria Parker, wife, age 61, married, 12 children, all still alive, housewife, born Elstead, Surrey; Walter Snelling, son, age 34, widower, bricklayer, worker, born Thursley, Surrey; Charles Snelling, son, age 28, bricklayer improver, worker, born Thursley, Surrey; Sidney Snelling, son, age 26, bricklayer labourer, worker, born Thursley, Surrey; Leonard Snelling, age 24, bricklayer labourer, worker, born Thursley, Surrey; Robert Snelling, age 20, plummer labourer, worker, born Thursley, Surrey; William Cecil Snelling, age 19, under gardener, worker, born Thursley, Surrey; Horace Samuel Snelling, grandson, age 5, school, born Shottermill, Surrey.

20th April 1912, St Stephens Church, Shottermill, Sussex, Leonard Snelling, age 23, bachelor, labourer, Lion Lane, father Walter Snelling, broom maker, deceased, married Elizabeth Anne Young, age 23, spinster, Lion Lane, father Alfred Richard Young, labourer.

Children - Leonard Alfred Snelling, born 22nd September 1912, Lion Lane, Haslemere, Surrey.

Enlisted Haslemere, Surrey, age 27 years & 5 months, height 5ft 10½ inches, weight 147lbs, fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair. Resided 4 Chuters Cottages, Lion Lane, Haslemere, Surrey. Formerly grocers van man.

Home 8th December 1915 to 4th September 1916; BEF 5th September 1916 to 10th February 1917.

8th December 1915, enlisted; 9th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 29th May 1916, mobilized; 30th May 1916, posted; 5th September 1916, posted BEF & embarked.

2nd September 1917, date when Separation Allowance of 16/- a week & Allotment of Pay of 3/6 a week, payable to wife, will cease.

3rd September 1917, pension of 18/9 a week awarded to widow & one child.

1920 March, Chorlton, Lancashire, Elizabeth Anne Snelling, married Christopher J S Wise.

17th May 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Elizabeth A Wise, late Snelling, 107, Cranworth St., Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire; Children - Leonard Snelling, 22nd September 1912, 107, Cranworth St., Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire; Father, deceased; Mother, deceased; Brothers - Alfred? Snelling; Harry Snelling; Charles Snelling; William Snelling; Sidney Snelling; Robert Snelling, ages & addresses not known; Sisters - Harriet Snelling; Emily Cooper?; Elizabeth Frogley?, ages & addresses not known; Grandparents, none; Nephews / Nieces, not known; Uncles / Aunts, not known.

Buried at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, M.27., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Commemorated Shottermill War Memorial.

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