Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Temple Ashworth was the son of Charles Ashworth. He married Phyllis Mary Cooper on 28 November 1889 and lived at Hambleton. He joined the Royal Field Artillery as a career soldier and in February 1902, by now a Captain, he was gazetted "for service as an Adjutant of Volunteer Artillery." He died on 22 March 1918 but it is not clear how. He was still serving in the army at the time so he might have been at home seriously ill or recovering from injuries. Leonard Ashworth is buried in the churchyard at Hambleton. You can see the grave as soon as you walk into the churchyard, on the right hand side. It is unusual in that it has a "widow's penny" embedded in the grave. This was a medallion which was sent to the relatives of every person who died in the First World War. He is also remembered on the war memorial at Hambleton.
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