The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. Lily remarried to Charles Doggett in 1922 in Cambridge with whom she had two children.This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. He is also commemorated on the Chesterton War Memorial and the Cambridge Guildhall War Memorial.
He has no known grave but he is commemorated on Panel 31 and 32, Pozières Memorial, France. He was killed in action 23 March 1918 aged 25. He transferred and became Private (202992), 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Sidney enlisted in Cambridge as Private (4289) of the Cambridgeshire Regiment. The couple lived at 12 Great Eastern Street (in Romsey Town), Cambridge. She married Sidney Frank Brown in 1916 in Cambridge. Leonard’s younger sister was Lily May Sparkes (1888-1980). His body was brought back to Cambridge and buried in Mill Road Cemetery. Leonard was entitled to the Victory medal and the British War medal. She travelled to the hospital but Leonard had died half an hour before her arrival. His widow had received two letters and a telegram with conflicting accounts as to how he had been wounded in the head. He died of wounds in Netley Hospital, Hampshire on 4 July 1916 just six weeks after enlisting. Leonard enlisted as a Private (M2/177157) in the MT Company, Army Service Corps. Leonard had been a member and committee member of the Beaconsfield Club (a Working Men’s Club). Before the war he worked as a private chauffeur for Dr Robert Elwell Naish, a physician based in Newmarket Road, Cambridge.
The family lived at 37 Abbey Walk, Cambridge. They had a daughter: Queenie Mary Elizabeth (1911–1978). He married Emma Claydon in 1910 in Cambridge. Leonard was an errand boy before becoming a domestic coachman. The family grew up at 5 Morleys Yard, 6 and then 12 Great Eastern Street (Romsey), Cambridge. He was one of ten children born to James Sparkes and Elizabeth Sparkes ( née Wayman). Luke’s Church, Cambridge and on the war memorial at the Cambridge Guildhall. He is buried in Mill Road Cemetery and is commemorated on the war memorial at St. He died of wounds in Netley Hospital, Hampshire on 4 July 1916, at the age of 32. Private (M2/177157) in the MT Company, Army Service Corps. Lat Lon : 52.203164, 0.13702966 – click here for location Sparkes CWWG headstoneĬommonwealth war grave in the parish area of St Edward. Monument : Headstone (Commonwealth war grave)Ībove information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey Inscription : MM2 177157 Private LC SPARKES Army Service Corps 4th July 1916 age 32
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