[HerefordBull]

Thanks for the history about Leigh Richmond Roose . Not heard of this before and will try to get the book.

As happened to many soldiers in the First World War their actual death and manner of this was never known The battle for Gueudecourt had officially finished a week before this date but in all the confusion, it appears, it is not known exactly what must have happened to him.

The Thiepval Memorial was built to mark all the Commonwealth soldiers whose bodies were never found at the Somme ( similar to the Menin Gate outside Ypres to mark the missing soldiers there) and has over 70,000 names on it. It is an impressive memorial and a very fitting tribute to be named there for Leigh and a fine remembrance for his family.