Leslie Warren (1898 - 1936) of Worcester, Worcestershire

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Son of RICHARD WARREN and EMILY WARREN (nee Bendall) of Worcester (Educated The King's School, Worcester)
d: August 20, 1934 buried Hallow Church, Worcester married ELSIE ATKINS of Worcester daughter of JAMES ATKINS and ELIZABETH ATKINS (nee WARMAN) of Worcester. Married secondly Doris Partington Crowe (?)

Leslie's brother Captain Martin Warren (Educated The King's School, Worcester) a Captain in the Worcestershire Regiment "C" Coy. 5th Bn.
attd. 1st Bn.died 25/03/1918 aged 20 Buried at Pozieres, Somme, France

Worcester Cathedral, Kings School Cloister Window. Source

WARREN Martin Captain, "C Company, 5th Battalion attached 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment.
Died aged 20 on 25th March 1918. Son of Richard Alfred and Emily Mary Warren, 93 Park Avenue, Worcester.
Pozieres Memorial, Panel 41. Also appears on Worcester Kings School memorial memorial.

WARREN, MARTIN Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Captain Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment
Unit Text: "C" Coy. 5th Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Age: 20 Date of Death: 25/03/1918 Additional information:
Son of Richard Alfred and Emily Mary Warren, of 93, Park Avenue, Worcester.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 41.
Memorial: POZIERES MEMORIAL

The POZIERES MEMORIAL relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918 when the Allied Fifth Army
was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields, and the months that followed
before the Advance to Victory, which began on 8 August 1918. The Memorial commemorates over 14,000 casualties
of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and who died on the Somme
from 21 March to 7 August 1918. The Corps and Regiments most largely represented are The Rifle Brigade with over
600 names, The Durham Light Infantry with approximately 600 names, the Machine Gun Corps with over 500,
The Manchester Regiment with approximately 500 and The Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery with over
400 names. The memorial encloses POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, Plot II of which contains original burials
of 1916, 1917 and 1918, carried out by fighting units and field ambulances. The remaining plots were made
after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields immediately surrounding the cemetery, the
majority of them of soldiers who died in the Autumn of 1916 during the latter stages of the Battle of the Somme,
but a few represent the fighting in August 1918. There are now 2,755 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War
buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,375 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials
to 23 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. The cemetery and memorial were
designed by W H Cowlishaw.

Captain Martin Warren was killed during heavy fighting for the village of Pargny which saw the British forces withdraw from the village following
a successful counter offensive by the Germans. Source: The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War, by Captain H. FitzM. Stacke.

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