Ainsley C A Pte 3326 4th Royal Fusiliers
AINSLEY, LEONARD CROMBIE, Private, No. 3326, D Coy., 2/4th Battn. Leonard Crombie Ainsley. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Arthur James Ainsley, of Rangoon, and New Southgate, N., Marine Engineer, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Thomas McTurk; b. New Southgate, co. Middlesex, 9 June, 1895; educ. Garfield Road School there, and Southgate County School, Fox Lane, Palmer’s Green; was a Clerk in the employ of the Barnet and District Gas and Water Company; joined the Royal Fusiliers 6 Nov. 1914; trained in Malta; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli from Sept. 1915-Jan. 1916, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from April-Sept. 1916; was for a time attached to the 13th London Regt., with whom he took part in the advance of 1 July; rejoined his old regiment in Aug. 1916; was reported wounded and missing after the attack on Cuinchy 9 Sept. 1916, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 2