Leonard Oliver Fairman
Rank: Bombardier 876630
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery originally with the 6th RFA later the 95th Brigade “D” battery
Parents: Mr Walter John Fairman & Jane Webb
Brothers: Percy Gordon Fairman & Stephen Francis Fairman
Brother-in-Law: T Martin
Address: Silverster Road, Bexhill
Other Info: Leonard died from his wounds (GSW to the left upper arm, septicaemia and shock) while in the Auxiliary Military Hospital, Manor Hill, Claughton on the 27th April 1918. His parents were Walter John Fairman and Jane Webb. The family lived at Silvester Road in Bexhill. Two of his brothers were also lost during the Great War, Percy (already in this collection) and Stephen and his three other brothers also served in the war. Photograph from the Bexhill-on-Sea Observer 13th Feb 1915 Gallery of Patriots. He previously married Adelaide Louisa Brown on the 26th August 1912 and they had three children. His only son died as a POW of the Japanese in 1944.
He is remembered at the Birkenhead (Flaybrick Hill) Cemetery, grave reference 16c of E 469 and on the Hastings Town Hall Roll of Honour.
Thank you to David Fairman for providing the image and information about Leonard.
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