This name is on the war memorial inside St Andrew's Church, Landor Road, Stockwell Road, London SW9
(Fairclough, L.)
Service no 550612
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles), 16th Battalion
Died age 29 on 1 July 1916
Son of Abraham and Emily Fairclough, of 14, Rumsey Rd., Stockwell, London.
Remembered at Gommecourt British Cemetery No 2, Hebuterne, France and at St Andrew's Church
Information from the 1911 census
Leonard Fairclough was an engine fitter, like his father, Abraham Fairclough. In 1911 he and his family were living at 26 Kimberley Road, Stockwell. Abraham, 49, was from Latham, Lancashire. His wife, Emily 56, was from Ockham in Surrey. Leonard, then 23, was born in Poplar, east London. His brother Harold, 21, was born in Ockham and worked as a clerk, while his sisters, Emily 14, and Daisy, 11, both born in Wimbleson, were still at school. Fanny Potter, sister to Emily (senior), 64 and single, lived with the family.