Leonard Sydney Budd was born at Inglemere Road, Mitcham, on 16th October 1905, and baptised at age 7 on 13th July 1913 at St Alban, Streatham Park.

He married Ivy E. Bolton in Wandsworth in 1931.

In the 1939 Register he was living with his wife Ivy, at 43 Warren Road, Mitcham. He was a bus conductor. She was born on 23rd June 1909.

He served with the RAF, service number 1429872.

His grandson said:

My grandad, Len Budd, also served in the RAF in WWII in Italy. Born 16 October 1905 at Inglemere Road, Mitcham
I think he was posted to Seattle, then Staffordshire before Italy