'This noble and elegant site is both a tribute to a family's history and to a nation's heritage'
Daniel J. Cassidy
'Trust in the Lord and he will give you the strength and courage to do your Duty' Rosie West Leonard
Aunt Rosie Leonard, a redoubtable lady, as most wives of Leonards have to be. Only rivalled by six other proud stalwarts of my family.
Please click on ETERNAL FATHER STRONG TO SAVE for a hymn and dramatic naval footage celebrating the life of my grandfather Chief Engine Room Artificer Emmanuel Leonard, who served at Jutland and Murmansk, and died in Auckland, New Zealand in 1930 while serving on the H.M.S, Laburnam. He is pictured below (right), with Greg's grandfather, my great uncle Sergeant Ernest Leonard (left). My great uncle Edward Leonard, who worked in Devonport Dockyard, is in the middle.
Emmanuel and Ethel Mary Leonard would have been proud of their 36 descendants, though their children, Dorothy, Captain Cecil Leonard, Vera, Flying Officer Jim Leonard, and John are now all deceased. In the year 2000, their daughter Dorothy and granddaughter Penny were the first of Emmanuel's family to visit his grave in Auckland, where he had been buried with full military honours 70 years previously, My younger grandson Harry, Emmanuel's great great grandson, is the youngest of his living descendants.
Greg Benton's and my great grandfather Thomas Leonard, Emmanuel's grandfather, was a first mate who sometimes captained a sailing barque which sailed out of Devonport. He died of blackwater fever in Sierra Leone. My cousin Janette Barbour Hatton, who lives in Hamilton, Ontario, has maintained further family and ancestral records,
See also FAMILY ANCESTRY
See also THE STONES OF PIDDINGWORTH (A Celebration of British History, with pictures of (Sergeant) Ernest and Rosie Leonard, and their similarly brave son Sergeant Ray Leonard, Both Ernest and Ray were disabled Canadian war veterans)
and PIDDINGWORTH FACEBOOK PAGE
Sergeant Ray Leonard
Ernie Leonard (Torquay United, 1909)
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