In Memoriam: Leonard Percy I’Anson

Photograph of Leonard Percy I'Anson in uniform, photographer unknown.
Photograph from ‘Bootham’ magazine, June 1915, photographer unknown.

L. P. I’Anson, Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, was killed at St. Julien, near Ypres, on April 25th, 1915.

He was born in 1878 in Saltburn, and attended Bootham between 1893 and 1895. He was a solicitor, and was engaged to be married when he died.

He is included on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

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