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Name: BENTLEY, Leonard Joseph
Birth Date: 29 Oct 1902 Swinehead, Lincs
Death Date: 21 Apr 1941 Johannesburg, broncho-pneumonia, on active service
First Date: 1929
Profession: Farmer
Area: Benna Estate, Kitale
Married: In London 1928 Nina Joan Chaloner b. 1895 London (prev. m. to Charles Eric Cole)
Book Reference: Hut, Barnes
War Service: RNVR. Commonwealth war grave
General Information:
Kitale cemetery Leonard Joseph Bentley - born 1902, died May 1941
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List
Is commem. on Plymouth Naval Memorial
Tom Lawrence: 1934 (22nd June) Leonard Joseph Bentley of Farm 1820/2 (P.O. Kitale) registers a brand (with Cert No. 2763) on this date (Gazette, 17th July 1934, p. 1054).
1938 (29th Nov) There is a hearing for a court case (DRCC No.2/38) at Supreme Court in Eldoret. The case is Harriet Marguerite Arnell vs. (1) L.J. Bentley and (2) E.P. Bertie (Gazette, 22nd Nov 1938, p. 1634).
1938 (6th Dec) On the electoral Roll for Electoral Area No. 8. (Trans Nzoia) there is Leonard Joseph Bentley (Farmer) and Nina Joan Chaloner Bentley (Married Woman) and both of P.O. Box 73, Kitale (Gazette, 6th Dec 1938, p. 57).
1939 Joins the Kenya Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (CWGC website).
1941 (21st Apr) Petty Officer Leonard Joseph Bentley died on active service (CWGC website).
1941 (23rd Apr) His Death Certificate (Entry No. 2872) is completed in Johannesburg. Leonard Joseph Bentley, a married man, and born in England, and normal residence being Kitale, Kenya dies of Broncho Pneumonia. He has had the complaint for six weeks and has affected both lungs. He died in the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home, Johannesburg, and the ‘intended place of burial’ was Oraanfontein (?) Crematorium, Johannesburg (Death Certificate).
1941 (May) Buried in Kitale Cemetery (E.A. Memorials website). Assumption here is that it took a month or so to get his ashes from Johannesburg to Kitale.
1941 (31st Dec) On the adjustments to the Electoral Roll for electoral Area No. 7 (Trans Nzoia), amongst those being expunged from the list is Leonard Joseph Bentley (Gazette, 31st Dec 1941, p. 3). I
Tom Lawrence: 1934 (22nd June) Leonard Joseph Bentley of Farm 1820/2 (P.O. Kitale) registers a brand (with Cert No. 2763) on this date (Gazette, 17th July 1934, p. 1054).
1938 (29th Nov) There is a hearing for a court case (DRCC No.2/38) at Supreme Court in Eldoret. The case is Harriet Marguerite Arnell vs. (1) L.J. Bentley and (2) E.P. Bertie (Gazette, 22nd Nov 1938, p. 1634).
1938 (6th Dec) On the electoral Roll for Electoral Area No. 8. (Trans Nzoia) there is Leonard Joseph Bentley (Farmer) and Nina Joan Chaloner Bentley (Married Woman) and both of P.O. Box 73, Kitale (Gazette, 6th Dec 1938, p. 57).
1939 Joins the Kenya Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (CWGC website).
1941 (21st Apr) Petty Officer Leonard Joseph Bentley died on active service (CWGC website).
1941 (23rd Apr) His Death Certificate (Entry No. 2872) is completed in Johannesburg. Leonard Joseph Bentley, a married man, and born in England, and normal residence being Kitale, Kenya dies of Broncho Pneumonia. He has had the complaint for six weeks and has affected both lungs. He died in the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home, Johannesburg, and the ‘intended place of burial’ was Oraanfontein (?) Crematorium, Johannesburg (Death Certificate).
1941 (May) Buried in Kitale Cemetery (E.A. Memorials website). Assumption here is that it took a month or so to get his ashes from Johannesburg to Kitale.
1941 (31st Dec) On the adjustments to the Electoral Roll for electoral Area No. 7 (Trans Nzoia), amongst those being expunged from the list is Leonard Joseph Bentley (Gazette, 31st Dec 1941, p. 3). I