Leonard Miller
Lenny (who, had they but known it, was or would have been,Jennifer's uncle) served in the British Army during the First World War. On 12 October 1917, a week shy of his eighteenth birthday, he was numbered among the 13,000 allied casualties suffered in what came to be known as the First Battle of Passchendaele. His body was never recovered from the hell scape that was the aftermath of the battle.
His twin sister, mother and, in particular, his grandmother, who all had more than a little of the Fae about them, were never convinced that he had actually perished that day, though none ever expressed such views save to one another.
Historicity
Leonard Scott Miller probably did not exist in your timeline but someone just like him, an ordinary working class Yorkshireman, with perhaps an equally interesting story to tell, lost while serving King and Country in a futile battle, almost certainly did.
Personal Data
Full Name
First name pronounced LEHN-ard.
Unusually for Earth of the time, Miller is the surname of his mother, rather than that of his father, for, although we know who his father is, as did Leonard's mother, his father's identity was never officially acknowledged.
Nicknames
Generally known to friends and family as Lenny; only in the most formal of circumstances would he have answered to Leonard.
Circumstances of Death
12 October 1917 was the last day Lenny was seen alive on this Earth. He went missing during an ill-prepared attack upon enemy lines, in the pouring rain. He was presumed to have died during the battle, or very shortly thereafter, though no one who survived it was able to bear witness to his death nor has his body ever been recovered. For combatants on the battlefields of World War I, such anonymous ends were not at all uncommon; many thousands have never been accounted for, their true fates remaining forever shrouded in uncertainty...
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