Cornell Walter Leslie 4455279
Personnel Entry
Name Cornell Walter Leslie
Army number 4455279
Rank
Decorations Military Medal - awarded for actions with the 86th Field Regiment (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) in North West Europe.
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age (At the time of his death). Not yet known.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry - exact date not yet confirmed, but almost certainly 2nd or 3rd May 1939. Posted ? 8th Battalion DLI. Posted 13th (Home Defence) Battalion DLI 2/11/1939. Transferred to the Royal Artillery 27/11/1942. Underwent Artillery training. Posted to the 86th Field Regiment - date not yet known. Served Normandy. Returned to the UK. Demobilised. Re-Enlisted in the 8th Battalion DLI (TA) 2/9/1948.
Company/Battery Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not yet known.
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action Date of death not yet known.
Home address Resident of Stanley.
Source table PBM
