This name is on the Old Manorians memorial, Clapham
Leslie Montrose Ekin
Second Lieutenant, York and Lancashire Regiment, 8th Battalion
Died on 1 July 1916, aged 22
Awarded the Military Cross
CWGC: "Son of James and Josephine Alice Ekin, of De Walden Court, Meads, Eastbourne. Native of Australia. His brother James [also a Second Lieutenant in the 8th York and Lancashires] also fell on the same day."
Remembered at Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, Somme, France
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Leslie Montrose Ekin was a 17-year-old student living at 5 Redcliffe Square, South Kensington, with his parents and four siblings and two live-in servants. James Ekin, 57, was a retired property owner from County Tyrone, Ireland; his wife Alice, 43, was from London. The family had evidently spent some time in Australia, as Leslie, his brothers James (14) and William John (11) and sister Kathleen (21) were born in Sydney, New South Wales. The youngest member of the family, one-year-old Sydney Montrose Ekin, was born in London.
The servants included Francis Drescher, a 20-year-old waiter from Germany.
Probate
£1079 18s 2d was left to James Ekin, father