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LEONARD ROBERT FRANKLIN
' DN19 7EX
BORN HULL 1894. ENLISTED CHESTERFIELD. LIVED IN HULL.
ELDEST SON OF ROBERT FRANKISH FRANKLIN (1860-1932) & SARAH MARIA TOMLINSON (1864-1902). SON OF A LAUNDRY MAN FOR THE RAILWAYS. HE HAD TWO SISTERS AND A YOUNGER BROTHER, BERNARD. HE WORKED AS A CRANE DRIVER FOR THE RAILWAYS. LIVED IN NEW HOLLAND, LINCOLNSHIRE (1911 CENSUS).
MARRIED KATE BROCKLESBY (1894-1986), AT ELSHAM, LINCOLNSHIRE IN 1916.
HE ENLISTED IN CHESTERFIELD, SERVED WITH THE 2/7TH SHERWOOD FORESTERS. DIED ON 19/10/1918, AGED 24.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, KATE, AT MILL HOUSE, FERRY ROAD, BARROW HAVEN, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
HIS BROTHER, LANCE CORPORAL, BERNARD WILFRED FRANKLIN, 103333, MACHINE GUN CORPS (EX 34363, Leics Regt.), WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 28/10/1918, AGED 20. HIS WIDOWED FATHER, LOST BOTH SONS WITHIN NINE DAYS OF THE WAR ENDING.
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