Person:Leeward Henderson (1)

1891 Census: Wardsville, WEST MIDDLESEX, ON, age 7 months, ON, ON, ON.

1901 Census: Wardsville, ON, Aug 8 1890, age 11, ON.

1911 Census: Wardsville, MIDDLESEX, ON, Aug 1886, 23, ON, ?traveler?

Leeward enlisted in the 1st World War in the United Kingdom "King's Royal Rifle Corps", 9th Batallion, as a Rifleman, service number R/10966 and died the 30th of July 1915. The Commonwealth War Graves Comission lists him as buried and commemorated on Panels 51 & 53 [British section] on the Menin Gate, Ypres, France Memorial. There is also a Leeward Isle Henderson listed at the Oakwood Cemetery, Glencoe, Ontario which needs to be checked out, when time permits.

[From documents kept by Ivy Metta Henderson] - Family was informed that he died at Hooge, France [Belgium?] and was buried during battle. About 1921 family was informed that his body had not been found

In the Henderson collection of unknown photos there is one in uniform unlike Canadian WW 1 uniforms and it is probably Leeward and is the photo attached to this file.

The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is a war memorial in Ypres , Belgium dedicated to the commemoration of British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is located at the eastern exit of the town and marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and built by the British government , the Menin Gate Memorial was unveiled on 24 July, 1927. Many thousands of soldiers in the British Army lost their lives fighting in the Ypres Salient. The remains of over 90,000 of them have never been found or identified. They are, therefore, buried somewhere in the Ypres Salient with no known grave.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ontario, Middlesex County. 1901 Cdn Census, Wardsville, ON (Tibbits), M1058.
2. ↑ Ken Willis. History of The Village of Wardsville, Vol 1, R78
   Page 59 & 64, 9 Apr 2003.
3. ↑ Archives Ontario Birth, series MS 929
   Reel 100, Ref. # 19589, 1 Feb 2004.
4. ↑ Ken Willis. History of The Village of Wardsville, Vol 1, R78.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Casualty Details of Henderson, Lee Ward Isle, M249.
6. ↑ Ken Willis. History of The Village of Wardsville, Vol 1, R78
   Page 59, 9 Apr 2003.