INDENTD.S.O. London Gazette 25.4.1918., Captain and Brevet Major, Gloucestershire Regiment, attached Army Cyclist Corps. "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in an attack on a village. He advanced across most difficult country, overcoming considerable opposition, and though part of his column was delayed, he attacked and cleared the village. He led his men with the greatest determination, and by his courageous leadership defeated a force of over double his own strength."

Lieutenant Colonel Henry Francis Leonard, D.S.O., M.C. (1886-1965), entered the Gloucestershire Regiment as Second Lieutenant, 1906; Captain 1914; detached from 2nd. Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment to form part of the Divisional Cyclist Company, November 1914 and served with the Army Cyclist Corps, 1914-18; took part in the Great War and served in France and Belgium, 1914-15 and in "Greek Macedonia, Sebia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and the Islands of the Aegean Sea", 1915-18; commanded the 10th. Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, September 1918 to July 1919 (Mentioned in Despatches four times; M.C. London Gazette, 14.1.1916; Legion of Honour, London Gazette, 1.5.1917.; Order of the Star, London Gazette, 20.9.1919.); Adjutant of the Simla Rifles, 1922-26; retired 1929; Lieutenant Colonel, 4th. Devon Regiment, Territorial Army, 1932; during the Second World War served as officer commanding Troopships and received the Atlantic Star.

57 Distinguished Service Orders to the Regiment for the Great War.