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Does anyone know of a Dorothy Leach widower of a Herbert Sidney Leach, Dorothy was born 1920 in Kent, she may have married someone from Reading or Bedford afteror when she was in the WAAF, her maiden surname was Howard and her father was a miner in Aylesham Kent, thank you.

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Do you know when she was widowed?
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Hi, I believe she was widowed in about early 1942, or late as her husband was captured by the Japanese and taken on one of the prisoner of war ships which was subsequently bombed whilst travelling to Japan, they had had only 6 weeks of marriage and they would have been married in the autumn of 1941, many thanks.

What was her second name?

Name: Dorothy M Howard
Spouse Surname: Leach
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1941
Registration district: West Ham
Registration county (inferred): Essex
Volume Number: 4a
Page Number: 89

Hi, Yes you have the right details and I believe her second name was May, thanks.

No birth on freebmd in Kent in 1920 -

England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005
Name: Jack H Leach
Spouse Surname: Howard
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1941
Registration district: West Ham
Registration county (inferred): Essex
Volume Number: 4a
Page Number: 89

Well done Zoe - I didn't look at the spouse's details, as I assumed we'd been given accurate info

There is NO marriage for Herbert S Leach in England/Wales to anyone named Dorothy

Perhaps you could check your sources, Walter

Hi, Well I'm not too sure where she was born, only that my Mum met her in Aylesham, when she was between the ages of 7 and 14, as her parents moved there for the mining work, Mum does not recall her friend having say a northern accent, thank you for looking, I shall have to have another go with the WAAF, and look up marriage of DOrothy Leach, but shall have to renew my ancestry subscription. Many thanks.

So this isn't a relation?

And you've no documents of any sort?

Where did her 'husband's' name come from?

Perhaps the marriage was overseas?

Humble apologies, have just checked with Mum, the name is Jack Henry Leach and Not Herbert - Herbert being the father of Dorothy's name - not sure where my head was on the 26th, Jacks father's name was Edward Thomas, thanks.

http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14


THE ONE

SADLY
Casualty Details
Name: LEACH, JACK
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cambridgeshire Regiment
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 21/09/1944
Service No: 6019492
Additional information: Son of Edward Thomas Leach and Emma Leach; husband of Dorothy May Leach, of Aylesham, Kent.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 59.
Memorial: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

So he didn't die in 1942 - I'd discounted the above CWGC record, based on your posting

If you really wish to trace what happened to her, I think you may need the marriage cert - to find out Dorothy's age when she married, plus her second forename.

Hi- not sure who I have corresponded with now, but Dorothy May Howard is the daughter of Herbert Sidney Howard, she married Jack Henry Leach son of Edward Thomas Leach, I have got the marr cert, just wondered if anyone out there, knew of these people, many thanks, shall keep looking.

You haven't corresponded with anyone specific - this is an open message board.

Hi, well now we know, how great that you have found this information, such very sad times, but at least I now know of a date to go by for searching in the WAAF and poss, from when Dorothy may have remarried. many thanks.

Was Dorothy definitely 21 when she married?

Do the names of the witnesses help?

ANCESTRY WEBSITE

UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
about Jack Leach
Name: Jack Leach
Given Initials: J
Rank: Private
Death Date: 21 Sep 1944
Number: 6019492
Birth Place: London E
Residence: London E
Branch at Enlistment: Infantry
Theatre of War: At sea
Regiment at Death: Cambridgeshire, Regiment
Branch at Death: Infantry

Thank you so much everyone for all your help, I don't suppose anyone can look up Dorothy May Leach, to see if she did re-marry, I know It is a lot to ask, but I would so love to get more info for my Mum, she is 90 this month and to maybe find her long lost friend, would be so wonderful, but do realise that it might be quite difficult and not everybody is so lucky to live as long as my Mum. thanks.

Hi, yes she must have been about that age, if she was the same age as my Mum, and my Mum got married at the age of 18 in 1938 and Dorothy married in 1941, the witnesses were just the 2 fathers. Before Dorothy married she was a nurse at Whipps Cross Hosp, but she would have had to leave when she married, I have been in touch with the Hosp, but not replies as yet. thanks.