LEONARD+TWIGGE

Twigge, Leonard, Private, 3568, 1st/6th Bn, Notts & Derby Regiment Born Parwich, Derbyshire Enlisted Buxton, Derbyshire Resided Parwich, Derbyshire Killed in action France & Flanders 10th April 1916 aged 21 Son of Henry Allsop Twigge, of 14, The Leys, Ashbourne, Derbyshire Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St. Eloi, I, B, 25

1911 Census A farm labourer A servant in the household of Thomas W. Twigge, a farmer, of Orchard View, Parwich, Derbyshire

Ashbourne News, 5th May 1916 Leonard Twigge was born 15th March, 1895, and was a mate of Albert Roberts. They enlisted together, were always billeted together and ‘they always said that if one got killed the other would want to.’ He belonged to the Parwich Oddfellows’ Club.


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