It was announced in the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph on December 14th, 1918, that L-Cpl Leonard Henry Slough, 25903, 1/5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, had been awarded the Military Medal for bravery.

His military record shows that he gained the medal at Umbrella Hill on July 27th, 1917, during the Palestine Campaign. He had joined the colours in February 1915 and trained at Landguard, Felixstowe, before being drafted to Egypt with the Beds Regiment in March 1916.

Leonard had married Phyllis Eliza Facer at St Paul's Church in Luton, on November 20th, 1915, and the couple's home was at 31 Old Bedford Road, Luton.

The 1911 Census shows he was born in Stoke Newington, London, in 1893 and was a straw hat stiffener before enlisting. He died in Luton in 1928 at the age of 35.