Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Leonard was born on the 18th May 1922 in Wigston. He was one of five children born to Ernest and Ada Jarvis. The family later lived in Enderby. He was 19 years old when he died.

Information source: HMS Hood Association website
http://www.hmshood.com/crew/memorial/j/JarvisLR.htm
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HMS Hood in company with the new battleship Prince HMS Prince of Wales, she was sent out to search for the German battleship Bismarck, which had left Norway with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen for the Atlantic. On the morning of 24 May, the two British capital ships found the enemy to the west of Iceland. In the resulting Battle of the Denmark Strait, one or more of Bismarck's fifteen-inch shells got into Hood's after magazines. They erupted in a massive explosion. The great ship sank very quickly about 260 nautical miles west-south-west of Reykjavik, Iceland in position 63º20'N, 31º50'W with all but three of her large crew (uboat.net)

Information submitted by J. Parrott, 2018