Early Life
Woodcock was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1911, the son of Ernest Woodcock and Mary Freel. At the outbreak of World War I, the family was living in Germany and Ernest was interned. While Leonard had been born in the United States, his parents were British (though Mary was Irish by birth) and mother and son returned to the UK for the duration of the war. The family was eventually reunited and sought a new life in North America. The originally settled in Canada, relocataing south of the border a few years later, to Detroit, Michigan.
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