Leonard Sowden

Rifleman. 43647. 16th Battalion. County of London Regiment - affiliated to the King's Royal Rifle Corps.

Formerly: 31498. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.

Born 1897, Milnsbridge.

Son of Arthur Sowden,

Brother of Hilda Mary.

Address: 10 High St. Scapegoat Hill.

Employed by Joseph Hoyle & Sons, Prospect Mills, Longwood.

Killed in action: 24th August 1918 aged 21.

Commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial. Panel 9.

Leonard had been working from the age of 14. He attended Scapegoat Hill Baptist Chapel and his name is on the Roll of Honour in St. John's Church Golcar.

Vis-en-Artios and Haucourt are villages on the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai about 10km south of Arras.

The Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8th August 1918 to the Armistice, in the Advance in Picardy and Artios, between Loos and the Somme and have no known grave.