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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Troupe Leslie Clement
|Army number=247059
|Rank=2/Lt
|Decorations=O.B.E. - 1983
|Date of birth=23/1/1923 at Hartlepool, County Durham.  Birth registered Q1 1923, mother's maiden name Bainbridge.
|Age=68 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - enlisted in the ranks aged 18.  Posted 70th (Young Soldiers) Battalion DLI.  Posted as Cadet to 164 OCTU.  Granted an Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt in The Durham Light Infantry 3/10/1942.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI 1942.  Posted to 70th Brigade HQ 23/3/1943.  Posted to 49 Div HQ.  Posted Directorate of Military Training GHQ India 1/6/1946. 
|Company/Battery=11th Battalion - Company not yet known.  70th Brigade Headquarters.
|Task or role=11th Battalion - Duty Officer?  70th Brigade HQ - Liaison Officer.  49 Div HQ - OC Defence and Employment Platoon.  India - GSO3. 
|Joined Brigade=3/10/1942, or shortly thereafter.
|Promotions=W/S Lt 9/3/1943, T/Captain.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 23/8/1991 aged 68.
|Home address=Worked as Forestry Commission Conservator, Stoke Bishop, Bristol.
|Source table=11DLI
}}