Person    | Male  Born 1912  Died 13/6/1917

Leonard C. Bareford

War dead non-military, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as being a civilian who was killed in WW1. Includes mercantile marines and emergency services personnel.

Leonard C. Bareford

Died aged five years. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this little boy. Leonard Charles Bareford was born in 1912 in Poplar, London, a son of Charles Leonard Bareford and Ethel Rose Bareford née Williams. His father was a Blacksmith. On 18 February 1912 he was baptised at All Hallows Church, Bromley-by-Bow and the family were living at 46A Swaton Road, Bromley-by-Bow. 

He was one of 18 children killed when a bomb fell through the roof of his school in Upper North Street, Poplar on 13 June 1917, aged 5 years, and his family were by then living at 22 Swale Street, Poplar. He is buried with fourteen other victims of the bombing in a communal grave at the East London Cemetery and Crematorium, Grange Road, Plaistow.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Leonard C. Bareford

Commemorated ati

Upper North Street School WW1 bomb - memorial

From IBHB: "Unveiled by Major General Ashmore who commanded the London Air De...

Read More

Other Subjects

George Adam Sheldon

George Adam Sheldon

JP and Chairman of Bexley Urban District Council 1909-1917. George Adam Sheldon was born in 1855 in Bexley Heath, Kent, the eldest of the seven children of William Sheldon (1835-1887) and Martha S...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
John Heath

John Heath

Islingtonian who died in the South African War, 1899-1903

Person, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Frank M. Harvey

Frank M. Harvey

The man on the 1905 plaque is probably not F. Milton Harvey who would have been only 29. Perhaps his father?

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
A. Bull

A. Bull

Name on one of the main panels of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Councillor  P. J. Geoghegan, JP
1 memorial

Previously viewed

Imperial Camel Corps

Imperial Camel Corps

Formed in 1916.  At its height there were 4,150 men and 4,800 camels.  3 of the 4 battalions were disbanded in mid-1918. The 2nd Battalion was disbanded in May 1919.

Group, Armed Forces, Animals, Australia, Egypt, India, Israel/Palestine, New Zealand

1 memorial
Gaius Classicianus

Gaius Classicianus

EC3, Trinity Place

A London Inheritance has a 1947, or thereabouts, photo of "London's earliest inscribed monument" as it was then, in two sections incorpor...

3 subjects commemorated