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Leonard Lonsdale

A group with connections to Grewelthorpe visited the grave of LEONARD LONSDALE to pay their respects in September 2011.

Leonard Lonsdale

Leonard was born and brought up in one of the cottages in Wapping, Grewelthorpe.

He went to the village school and was a typical local lad. No one really knows why a young man from North Yorkshire ended up serving in the Sherwood Forresters, a regiment drawn from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, nor do we know what adventures he had in the North Africa Campaign where the Forresters were involved in the defeat of Rommel, or what he went through in the landings at Salerno in September 1943 all we know is sketchy details about how he met his untimely end.

Leonard’s family were told that he was travelling in a Jeep with three comrades that was ambushed and all four were killed by machine gun fire on 18th October 1944. Buried close to Leonard are three Sherwood Forresters all killed on the same day. R Thoumine age 20, J MC Garity age 24, M S Smithard age 22.A very sad twist is the fact that the battle weary Forresters were pulled out of action just two days later.

Leonard Lonsdale's Grave Assisi Assisi War Cemetery

Assisi War MemorialThe War Cemetery at Assisi is a lovely well cared for place for Leonard and his comrades to be laid to rest.You can find more information about Leonard on our page about the Grewelthorpe War Memorial

Grewelthorpe History

  • 1939 Register for Grewelthorpe.
  • A Brief History
  • A Racehorse called Grewelthorpe
  • ARP wardens and other volunteers.
  • Beggars Bush Farm
  • Boxing Match
  • Bramley Grange
  • Brewers & Innkeepers of Masham and surrounding area
  • Bush Farm sale March 1831
  • Calverley Diary
  • Celebrations
  • Census Statistics
  • Chartulary - Bramley
  • Churchmen in Grewelthorpe
  • Churchmen of Grewelthorpe
  • Civil War Hoard
  • Cricket Club
  • Directories
  • Domesday Book
  • Edgar Chapman
  • Electoral Registers Grewelthorpe
  • Evacuees. World War 2.
  • Fingerfield farm Grewelthorpe
  • French War Escape Hero lived in Grewelthorpe.
  • George Leathley
  • Grewelthorpe 1911
  • Grewelthorpe Ghost stories
  • Grewelthorpe Inclosure Award
  • Grewelthorpe Man
  • Grewelthorpe Mill
  • Grewelthorpe Pond
  • Grewelthorpe Reading Room
  • Grewelthorpe residents in 1838
  • Grewelthorpe Women at work
  • Hidden bottle in Church
  • Houses in 1911
  • Houses in Grewelthorpe in 1921.
  • Infant Mortality
  • Knights Templar
  • Land Owners
  • Leonard Lonsdale
  • Les Taylor - Oral History
  • Major William Thomas Buxey
  • Masham Peculiar Court
  • Methodists
  • Mickley
  • Mickley Mill.
  • Mickley Water Supply and drainage
  • Nutwith in Grewelthorpe
  • Old School &, Village Photos
  • Robbery in Grewelthorpe 1849
  • Roll of Honour WW1
  • Roll of Honour WW2
  • Royal Oak Public House
  • School Canteen
  • School History Part 1.
  • School History Part 4.
  • School History. Part 2.
  • School History. Part 3.
  • School Play 1938
  • Street Lights
  • The Canadian Emigrant
  • The Royal British Legion
  • Time Line
  • Two boys killed by bomb.
  • Village Survey 1970 - 1971
  • W.T.Neave.
  • War Memorial
  • War Time in Grewelthorpe
  • Water for Grewelthorpe
  • Wayside Cross
  • West Riding House of Correction
  • William George Leathley
  • Wills. 1600 - 1860
  • Workhouse Inmates
  • WW2 Bombers crash in area

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