WWI Victory Medal. Leonard. Leinster Regiment. Gunshot wounded.
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Correctly named 2560 Pte J Leonard Leins R
Joseph served with both the 1st & 7th Battalions.
He arrived in France in December 1915 earning his 15 Star Trio.
In June 1917, we see from medical records he was treated for a gunshot wounding to his left wrist.
The 1st Battalion arrived on the Western Front from India in December 1914 but in November the following year it was transferred to Macedonia. It moved to Egypt in September 1917, subsequently serving in the Palestine campaign.
The regiment also raised two service battalions for the conflict – the 6th Battalion (which served at Gallipoli and in the Macedonian and Palestine campaigns) and the 7th Battalion 3 (which served on the Western Front). The 3rd, 4th and 5th Battalions were embodied for their home-based reinforcement role in 1914 and thus did not serve overseas.
During the course of the Great War the regiment was represented in four theatres of operations; approximately two thousand officers and men were killed and many more received serious wounds. Four members of the regiment won the Victoria Cross and thirty-two battle honours were awarded
The medal has an original silk ribbon.
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