Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

The grave of Leonard Hardy at Gorre Cemetery.  Photographed for 'Marching in Memory' for Combat Stress, July 2015

The grave of Leonard Hardy at Gorre Cemetery. Photographed for ‘Marching in Memory’ for Combat Stress, July 2015

Today we remember …

11th February 1915.  Leonard Hardy, G Social 1909.  Lt, 2nd Bn, Worcestershire Regt. Killed in action in an unknown engagement in France.

Leonard Hardy was the first Old Radleian to fall who had been a boy at the school when the Warden, E Gordon Selwyn, took up his post in 1913. The Warden spoke about him in Chapel: ‘The first thing which strikes me, I think, as I recall him, was that he was one whom you could always absolutely trust… pray also for this School, that God may send us many like him.’

Leonard Hardy, Lt, 2nd Bn, Worcestershire Regt.  kia 11 February 1915

Leonard Hardy, Lt, 2nd Bn, Worcestershire Regt. kia 11 February 1915