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Person
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Keyworth, Leonard James; Lance Corporal
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History
Dantzic Street was renamed Keyworth Street in 1919 in memory of Lance Corporal Leonard James Keyworth who was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in France during the First World War. After his investiture at Buckingham Palace on 12 July 1915 he returned to France where he sustained wounds from which he died on 19 October 1915, aged 22 years.