LEAL, Cecil Jack

Cecil was born 1894 in Cowes to Ernest John & Hannah (nee PALMER) LEAL. They were living at 61 Carisbrooke Road around the time of Cecil's death on the 31st of May 1919, aged 25, at the County Hospital in Ryde.

Cecil died from an internal complaint contracted on active service. Cecil had joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps early in 1915 & was later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. He served as a machine-gunner on the Western Front, & was twice severely wounded, being discharged from the Army about a year before his death on accounts of wounds.

Originally buried beneath a Private Memorial, his name became unclear & in order to maintain appropriate commemoration permission was sought by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission & granted, to install a Pedestal Marker on Cecil's grave.

Cecil is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials. His brother Ernest Leonard Chambers also fell in The Great War.