FREDERICK SAMUEL LEECH
Images courtesy of Sarah.
Born: 1891, Holbrook, Suffolk.
Died: 5th May 1918; age 27; KiA.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Date of Entry Therein: 8th September 1914.
Rank: Sergeant; Service Number: 9592
Regiment: East Yorkshire Regiment, 7th Battalion.
Formerly 8074, Suffolk Regiment.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1914 Star.
Memorial Reference:
Panel 27 & 28.
Somme,
France.
CENSUS
1901 24, Riverside Road, Ipswich.
Frederick was 9 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Francis Leech, 37, a Labourer – Manure Works, born Grundisburgh, Suffolk.
Sarah Elizabeth Leech (nee Walker), 32, born Ipswich.
Francis James Leech, 11, born Grundisburgh.
Florence Martha Leech, 13, born Ipswich.
In 1911, Frederick’s parents recorded on their census that he and his brother Francis were Soldiers
Photo taken around 1917 – Frederick is seated on the left, with his brother Francis on the right.
With their cousins, Millicent and Edward Gosling.
In 1915, Sculcoates, East Riding of Yorkshire, Frederick married Doris Inez Smith, born July 1893, York, Yorkshire – daughter of John James Smith, a stationary boilerman for North Eastern Railways, and Annie Mahala Smith (nee Gilleard), of 37, Bootham Row, York.
Doris and Frederick had one daughter:
Zelma Doris Leech, born May 1917, Withernsea, North Riding of Yorkshire.
Zelma Doris Leech
Soldiers’ Effects to Doris I. Leech – widow.
Frederick is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Peter’s Church, Ipswich.
East Yorkshire Regiment, 7th Battalion:
http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/east-yorkshire-regiment/
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