PRIVATE LEONARD GREGG
LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS
23RD OCTOBER 1914 AGE 26
BURIED: HAZEBROUCK COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Leonard's inscription remembers his brother who was killed in the Boer War. Robert was 20 when he died in South Africa. The Greggs were a military family: in the 1881 census their address is given as Military Barracks, Bolton Road, Elton, Bury, Lancashire. This is the address of the Lancashire Fusiliers' Wellington Barracks. Father, William Gregg, is described in the census as Colour Sergeant, 7 Rgt. Lancs. Militia, Pensioner. He was 39. Leonard too must have been a professional soldier. The 1911 census records him as serving with the Lancashire Fusiliers in Multan, Punjab, India. The 2nd Battalion crossed to France on 20 August 1914 and were involved in all the early battles of the first months of the war. Leonard died in a Casualty Clearing Station on 23 October 1914.