Lance Corporal Leonard Ayriss, 10895
- Batt - 6
- Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
- Section -
- Date of Birth - 1896
- Died - 03/10/1917
- Age - 21
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of John H. Ayriss a Farm Labourer, born 1863 in Souldern, Oxfordshire and his wife Sarah E., born 1873 in Great Glen, Leicestershire. Leonard was a Farm Horseman and was born in 1896 in Cosby, Leicestershire, his siblings were, Herbert, born 1898 in Cosby, Leicestershire, Emily E., born 1899, Louisa M., born 1903 and Maggie E., born 1903, all his siblings were born in Cosby, Leicestershire. In April 1911 the family home was at Cosby, Leicestershire. His younger brother Herbert also fell. The War Diary for today records. IN THE FIELD. Cleaned up and made preparations for returning to the line.
- Conflict - World War I
- Burial Place - I E 18, Birr Cross Roads Cemetery
- Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Commemoration - Birr Cross Roads Cem., Zillebeke, Belgium
- Born - Cosby, Leics
- Enlisted - Leicester
- Place of Residence - Cosby, Leicestershire, England
- Memorial - ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGEL'S CHURCH, COSBY, LEICS
