Captain Arthur Vincent Leonard, C.A.M.C.
(1890-1918)

Oct. 29, 1890-June 27, 1918 
Captain, Canadian Army Medical Corps

Son of the late Owen Leonard; b. Warkworth; ed. St. Mary's S.S., Hamilton, St. Michael's School, De La Salle Institute, Toronto; Medicine 1906-11, M.B.; First Rugby colours; Alpha Kappa Kappa; Isolation and Sick Children's Hospitals, Toronto.  In August 1915 he was appointed to the C.A.M.C., and served for a month at Niagara Camp before going overseas. He crossed to France in November 1915 and was attached as Medical Officer to the 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, later joining No.2 Field  Ambulance. He took part in the battles of the Somme, Vimy, and Hill 70. In November 1917 he returned to England and joined the staff of No. 16 Canadian General Hospital at Orpington. In December of the same year he was attached to the Hospital ship service, first with H.M.H.S. 'Araguaya', and later, in March 1918, with H.M.H.S. 'Llandovery Castle'. He was drowned at sea when this ship was sunk by an enemy submarine.

(Information from the University of Toronto memorial yearbook
courtesy of Jim Leonard)





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