Brigadier, Charles Esmond Morrison, D.S.O., M.C. Born 17th June 1893 and died 1st May 1966 He joined the army in August 1914. Commended the 1st Battalion 8th The "British Battalion" 1941 to 1945 Leicestershire Regiment. This memorial is in Leicester Cathedral...
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Leslie Novis, M.C., The Royal Leicestershire Regiment 1929 - 1954. he commanded the 1st Battalion 1944 and 1945 -1947 and the 2nd Battalion 1947 - 1948/ He was Captain, England Rugby, XV 1933. He died 2nd November 1997 aged 91. He lived at Fryern House...
Major General Sir Douglas Anthony Kendrew, KCMG, CB ,CBE, DSO.
Royal Leicestershire Regiment, 1931 - 1963
Colonel of the Leicestershire Regiment 1963 - 1964
Deputy Colonel, Royal Anglian Regiment 1964 - 1965
Governor of Western Australia 1963 - 1973
Captain of England Rugby XV 1935
He...
Major General, George Tito BRICE, C.B. Colonel of the Leicestershire Regiment who died on the 21st September 1905. This memorial was erected by past and present Officers of the regiment. It is situated in Leicester Cathedral
He lived at Beaumont House, Windsor and was a retired Major General...
This memorial window is in St Mary's church, Hinckley, Leicestershire
Colonel Samuel Davis, Leicestershire Volunteers died in Hinckley 4th February 1897 aged 64
Husband of Sarah Ann of High Field House, Hinckley. He was a J.P. and a Hosiery Manufacturer
his son, Edgar Crofts Davis...
Lieutenant 2/5th Leicestershire Regiment, killed in action near Bullecourt, March 21st 1918 aged 21. Son of Samuel (Hosiery Manufacturer) and Beatrice of Elmlea, Hinckley, Leicestershire. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
This memorial is in St Mary's church, Hinckley, Leicestershire
The memorial can be seen in St Mary's church, Hinckley Three members of the Choir who died in the Great War
MARSHALL, Shirley Richardson, Private 5807, 1st Leinster Regiment died of Malaria 6th December 1918 aged 20. Son of Charles Frederick and Martha Ellen of 36, Hill Street, Hinckley...
This poppy cross memorial is on the Shardlow War Memorial, Derbyshire
TWELLS Albert, Private 36513, 9th Leicestershire Regiment, formerly 40942, Sherwood Foresters killed in action 3rd May 1917 aged 21 Foster son of Mrs. Harriet Ann Twells, of Aston Lane, Shardlow.
Commemorated on the Arras...
Private 241414 5th Leicestershire Regiment, killed
in action at Lens, 30th June 1917, 19 Son of Arthur & Lillian of Ginstables, Oakthorp, Burton on Trent. Buried at Loos British Cemetery, France
Buried at Stretton En Le Field Cemetery Donisthorpe
Private 6050 Leicestershire Regiment Depot
26th February 1917, 27. Son Arthur & Sarah, of Moira husband of Elsie Faith nee Grice of Donisthorpe Lane, Moira, Burton-on-Trent
Buried at Stretton En Le Field Cemetery Donisthorpe
Private 240971 Arnold Penford Lock B Coy 2/5th Leicestershire Regiment, 2nd February 1918, 23. Son of Arthur Kate of Renford, Stanley Drive, Humberstone, Leicester
Buried at Stretton En Le Field Cemetery Donisthorpe
Private 203316, 2nd Leicestershire Regiment, died in India 29th January 1918 aged 40. Son of Alfred Cox and Rebecca Ann, husband of Mary Ann of 8. Paget Street, Loughborough and brother of John who also fell
Commemorated on a family memorial at Mountsorrel Cemetery, Leicestershire and is...
Sergeant 1971, 1/5th Leicestershire Regiment killed in action in Flanders, 25th September 1915 aged 25. Son of Alfred Cox * Rebecca Ann and brother of William who also fell
Commemorated on a family memorial at Mountsorrel Cemetery, Leicestershire and is buried at Ypres reservoir Cemetery, Belgium
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