Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookexploit of the Maid of Orleans--when these troops were instrumental in the utter defeat of the English under the Duke of Bedford. Sir John French, in his first Despatch, said that for the advance from the Marne his left wing rested on Lagny. [Illustration: =Malcolm Leckie.=] =LEDGER, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4248), 220386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =LEDGER, RAYMOND KIRWOOD=, Lieut., 6th (Reserve) Battn. Rifle Brigade, attd. 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 4th _s._ of the Rev. Charles George Ledger, M.A., Vicar of St. Paul's, Tupsley, co. Hereford, by his wife, Isabel Mary, dau. of the Rev. George Henry Kirwood; _b._ Hereford, 26 Oct. 1891; educ. Marlborough (Scholar), and Wadham College, Oxford (graduated B.A. with honours in Modern History, and was Captain of his college tennis, hockey and Association football teams); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 19 Dec. 1914; went to France 13 Nov. 1914; was attached to 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 13 April, 1915, being shot by a sniper while in the trenches. He was buried the same night near Picantin, side by side with Lieut. Gladstone; _unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote: "He had done more reconnaissance work than any other officer in the battn. He volunteered for everything possible, and carried out successfully whatever he set himself to do. What he did at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle was characteristic; he volunteered to go and find where the 21st Brigade was when it had got out of touch with his own Brigade (the 22nd). The way he took was sprinkled with the dead bodies of those who had tried, before him, to get across; he managed to do it and returned with valuable information. He was away seven hours." He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 31 May, 1915. [Illustration: =Raymond K. Ledger.=] =LEDIARD, FRANCIS=, Private, No. 7948, B Coy., 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of the late Henry Lediard, of Birmingham, Cab Proprietor, formerly a Police Constable in the Birmingham Force, by his wife, Sarah; _b._ Birmingham, 25 Nov. 1867; educ. St. Thomas Church Schools there; was a Cab Driver in Birmingham, but enlisted in the Royal Scots in 1902; served eight years with the Colours and four years with the Reserve, during which time he held a good position in a motor garage in Birmingham; was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; rejoined his old regt.; went to France about 18 Aug., and was killed in action on the 26th, during the retreat from Mons; _unm._ [Illustration: =Francis Lediard.=] =LEE, ALBERT ALFRED=, Private, No. 2132, A Coy., 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Alfred Lee, of 16, Waltham Road, Southall, Basketmaker, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Ruben Kempster; _b._ Southall, 29 Dec. 1896; educ. Featherstone Road Boys' School there; was employed in the Boxmaking Department of Messrs. Otto Monsted, Ltd., Margarine Works, Southall; joined the 1/8th Middlesex Territorials in April, 1913; mobilised from the training camp on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; volunteered for foreign service; went to Gibraltar with his regt. in Sept.; returned to England in Feb. 1915; went to France, 8 March, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, 1 May, 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres; _unm._ Buried there. Capt. A. H. Woodbridge, Officer Commanding A Coy., wrote: "It is with infinite regret that I write to tell you of your son's death, which occurred in the fighting near Ypres on 1 May. In your great grief it may be some comfort to you to know that he suffered no pain and met his end nobly doing his duty." [Illustration: =Albert Alfred Lee.=] =LEE, CHARLES=, Private, No. 5086, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., eldest _s._ of Samuel Herbert Lee, of Alnwick Street, Burnley, by his wife, Margaret Ann, dau. of William Whittaker; _b._ Burnley, 20 Feb. 1893; educ. St. Peter's School there; joined 2nd East Lancashires, 16 May, 1912, previously to which he was employed at Towneley Collieries; went to France, 1 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Charles Lee.=] =LEE, CHARLES=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 3954), 155422, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ [Illustration: =Charles Lee.=] =LEE, GEORGE FRANCIS=, Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5473), 301936, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =LEE, LENNOX CLELAND LEE=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Irish Guards (Special Reserve), elder _s._ of Lennox Bertram Lee, of How Caple Court, near Ross, co. Hereford, by his wife, Edith, dau. of the late Malcolm MacLellan, of Clairmont Gardens, Glasgow; _b._ Knutsford, co. Chester, 27 March, 1893; educ. St. David's, Reigate; Eton, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; and when war broke out was awaiting examination for the Diplomatic Service; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Irish Guards (Special Reserve), 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915. Buried there; _unm._ =LEE, LEWIS (DICK)=, L.-Corpl., No. 9915, 6th Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of George Lee, of 26, Trafford Street, Scunthorpe, Steel Worker, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Richard Walker; _b._ Crowle, co. Lincoln, 23 Sept. 1890; educ. Scunthorpe; was employed in steel works; enlisted after the outbreak of war, Aug. 1914; trained at Frensham Camp, Farnham; went to the Dardanelles in June, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 29 Aug. 1915; _unm._ Two of his brothers are (1916) on active service. [Illustration: =Lewis Lee.=] =LEE, REGINALD=, _alias_ =THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 1574, 5th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of Thomas Lee, of Elsted, Sussex, Police Constable, by his wife, Ellen; _b._ Brighton, 29 Jan. 1895; educ. Amberly, Bognor, and Funtington, co. Sussex; enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery, 9 Nov. 1910, and served three years, taking his discharge while at Simon's Town, Cape Colony, 9 May, 1913; he then went to Adelaide, and was getting on well when war was declared. He immediately joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and after a short period of training at Melbourne, was sent to Egypt and from there to the Dardanelles, where he was wounded by a shell while fetching up ammunition and died on board the Hospital Ship Royal George, between Alexandria and Malta, 16 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Reginald= _alias_ =Thomas Lee.=] =LEE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9000), S.S. 105811, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =LEECH, WILLIAM LEONARD BOGHURST=, Rifleman, 1/9th Battn. (Queen Victoria's Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of the late Arthur Herbert Leech, M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A. (who was in practice at Woolpit and afterwards at Broseley, where he died in 1894), by his wife, Annie Madeline (28, Egerton Gardens, West Ealing, W.), dau. of Willi |