Junior Canteen Assistant Leonard Arthur George Hamlyn
HMS Centurion, Navy Army And Air Force Institute, NAAFI
Date of Birth: 17th of December 1924
Place of Birth: Teignmouth, Devon
Date of Death: 22nd of April 1941
Buried: Teignmouth Old Cemetery, plot CC84
Awarded the 1939-45 Star and the 1939-1945 War Medal
Son of Arthur James Hamlyn and Nora Hamlyn, of Teignmouth, Devon.
In the 1939 register, Leonard was living at 2, Mulberry Street, Teignmouth, Devon, with Edward G Hamlyn, 1870, Incapacitated and Widowed, and his mother, Nora Hamlyn, born 24th of October 1899. Leonard is a Butchers Boy.
On the 22nd of April 1941, during the Plymouth Blitz, the communal air-raid shelter at Portland Square took a direct hit which killed 72 people.
Boy Canteen Assistant, L.A.G. Hamlyn, N.A.A.F.I. 22nd April 1941 Age 16
