Birth: 15 November 1894 New Farm, Grayswood, Witley, Surrey, UK
Father: Levi Smither (Smithers) 1861-1909
Mother: Rhoda Court 1861-1927
Christening: 11 January 1895 Witley, Surrey, UK
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: October-December 1975 South West Surrey, UK
None known
Birth of Leonard Smithers in FreeBMD in October-December 1894 in Hambledon (2a 132). Birth place from 1901 census.
Christening of Leonard Smithers in the IGI on 11 January 1895 in Witley, Surrey, parents Levi and Rhoda Smithers.
His sisters were also born in Witley in 1898 and 1900.
In the 1901 census as Leonard Smithers aged 6, born in Wiltley, Surrey, and living with his parents (Levi and Rhoda), four brothers (Alfred J, Arthur, Walter and William), half-brother (Levi), and three sisters (Clara, Hilda May and Ruth) at New Farm, Grayswood, Witley, Surrey.
His father died in Hambledon in 1909.
In the 1911 census as Lenard (sic - on the original) Smithers aged 16, born in Witley, Surrey, single, an assistant on farm at home and living with his widowed mother (Rhoda), four brothers (Alfred, Arthur, Walter and William), three sisters (Clara, Hilda and Ruth) and three cousins (Dorothy, Eva and Jane) in eight rooms at New Farm, Grayswood, Haslemere, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 for Leonard Smithers T2/13089 in Royal Army Service Corps enlisted 5 September 1914 discharged 23 October 1914.
Entry in Ancestry British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920 for Leonard Smithers born in 1895 at Grayswood Surrey, number 13089 in the Army Service Corps. His military history states he was at Home from 5 September 1914 to 23 October 1914 and his next of kin was his mother Rhoda Smithers of Homeleigh, Grayswood, Haslemere, Surrey. His medical history on 5 September 1914 states he was born in Haslemere, Surrey, aged 19 years 9 months, a gardener, height 5 ft 6 inches, weight 8 st 8 lbs, chest 33.5+1.5 inches, modest physical development, fair complexion, blue eyes, sandy hair, vision 6/6 normal, enlisted on 5 September 1914 at Guildford when found fit for service, but on 23 October 1914 found medically unfit under KR para 392(III)c.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Leonard Smithers, born on 15 November 1894, in October-December 1975 in Surrey SW (17 1457).
Bernie Harkensee and Linda Ann Hardy have entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Leonard Smithers born in 1894 in Witley, Surrey, parents Levi Smithers and Rhoda Court,. There are another two entries and one in Ancestry OneWorldTree for Leonard Smithers born in December 1894 in Hambledon, father Malcolm William Smithers, his marriage to ? Mc Kay in June in Croydon, a son and daughter born in Croydon, and his death in December 1975 in SW Surrey. This is confusing this Leonard Smithers with the one born in Croydon in 1901, married in June 1924 in Croydon, and who died in Worthing in 1966 and whose wife Gwendoline Alice McKay died in Worthing in 1990.
Leonard Smithers was my tenth cousin once removed.
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