Has anybody details on this man please , POW camp , cause of death etc. Captured in Norway 1940. Private EBBINS, LEONARD Service Number 4860149 Died 07/10/1942 Aged 23 1/5th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment Son of George Henry and Jessie Ebbins, of Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Germany, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Name: Private Leonard L Ebbins Death Date: 7 Oct 1942 Cemetery: Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Charlottenburg, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany Has Bio?: N URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem... Private Leonard L Ebbins (Unknown-1942) - Find A... UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 Name: Leonard Ebbins Given Initials: L Rank: Private Death Date: 7 Oct 1942 Number: 4860149 Birth Place: Nottinghamshire Residence: Nottinghamshire Branch at Enlistment: Infantry Theatre of War: Norway Regiment at Death: Leicestershire Regiment Branch at Death: Infantry TD
Not much more listed about him on the Royal Leicestershire Regiment database other than he enlisted in 1939. Royal Leicestershire Regiment
Probably our man England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 Name: Leonard Ebbins Registration Date: 1919 Registration district: Newark Inferred County: Nottinghamshire Re-registration Year: 1919 Mother's Maiden Name: Briggs Volume Number: 7b Page Number: 651 TD
Yes that's him , he was born in Newark along with his brother John who was a POW of the Japanese and survived the war. Both his eldest and youngest brothers died as children. Went to school at The Mount and work in the grindery at Ransome and Marles.
1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION Ebbins Household (4 People) 15 Beacon Terrace, Newark M.B., Nottinghamshire NAME - DOB - OCCUPATION George H Ebbins - 03 Nov 1880 - Iron Moulder Jessie Ebbins - 28 Apr 1884 - Unpaid Domestic Duties Leonard Ebbins - 08 Jan 1919 - Metal Polisher Ball Bearing John F Ebbins - 13 Sep 1920 - Seeking Work
