Looking for info on Leo Austin Joplin

I wonder if your readers could help me with my research into Leo Austin Jopling?

I am assisting Ushaw College Durham in identifying WW1 casualties to update their archives and add additional names to the memorial in the college.

I have been researching and profiling WW1 casualties for almost 40 years.

The son of Austin Edward Jopling and Frances Jopling (nee Hunter), of 49 St Thomas Street, Scarborough, Leo Austin Jopling was born on 25 January 1899.

The 1911 census has the family living at 26 New Queen Street, Scarborough.

He was a student at Ushaw College, Durham, having entered the college on 22 March 1917.

There is a listing in the University of London Student Military Records of a ‘Jopling, L.A. (age 19). February 1918 – February 1919. Inter. Arts, to be excused one subject (BA).’

There are no casualty records or Commonwealth War Graves details and he was not a recipient of the Silver War Badge.

He died on 10 December 1919, aged 19 years at 49 St Thomas Street, Scarborough.

He is buried in the family plot at Manor Road Cemetery, Scarborough. His name appears on the Scarborough War Memorial at Oliver’s Mount (under the name of JOBLING) and on a memorial in St Peter’s Church, Scarborough.

The records held by Ushaw College state that he left to join the Army on 21 December 1917 and returned to the College on 15 February 1919 and matriculated Second Class in June 1919. Exhaustive searches have found no record of

T YOUNGSON military service but there are suggestions in the Ushaw College War List of July 1918 that he was with the Northumberland Fusiliers and there is also a suggestion that he was in France.

We would like to find any document or letters indicating that he was serving which may give us information for further investigation.

In real terms if we can prove his military service there is a distinct possibility that his grave will be designated a war grave by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Revd David T Youngson bancourtresearch@ntlworld.com