Source: July 1917 War Diary entry. Killed by enemy trench mortar fire.
Family Search: When Lieutenant Leonard Charles Jarvis was born on 24 February 1892, in London, Ontario, Canada, his father, Chauncey Giles Jarvis, was 31 and his mother, Marian Wilkinson, was 26. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as barrister-at-law in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 20 July 1917, in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 25, and was buried in Sains-en-Gohelle, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
STUDIED LAW IN TORONTO
Lieut. Leonard Jarvis, Killed in France, Enlisted in London.
Special to The Star.
London, Ont., July 25. – Lieut. Leonard Jarvis of this city, just reported killed in action in France, was a former student of law with N.W. Rowell, Toronto, and later gave up his practice here to go overseas with London’s Own Battalion. Mrs. J.Dec. O’Grady, of Winnipeg, is a sister and Guy M. Jarvis, of Toronto, a brother.
Source: Toronto Star – July 25, 1917 via CVWM.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 