Cornell Walter Leslie 4455279 - Revision history

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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Cornell Walter Leslie
|Army number=4455279
|Age=0
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - dates not known, Posted ? Bn DLI, Posted 13th (HD) Bn DLI 2/11/1939, Trf Royal Artillery 27/11/1942, R/E 8th DLI (TA) 2/9/1948.
|Source table=PBM
}}

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 |Date of birth=Born 2/10/1907 in New Kyo, County Durham.
 |Age=83 at the time of his death.
-|Company/Battery=11th DLI Company not yet known.
+|Company/Battery=11th DLI - Company not yet known.  341 Field Battery, Royal Artillery.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
 |Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman in the DLI.  Medical Orderly in the Royal Artillery.
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 }}
 Thanks are due to Tom Tunney for additional information about this soldier and to resources found on Ancestry.co.uk.

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 |Surname and forenames=Cornell Walter Leslie
 |Army number=4455279
-|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry - 2nd May 1939.  Posted 8th Battalion DLI.  Posted 11th Battalion DLI - probably 1/9/1939.  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.  Posted 46 Reinforcement Holding unit 7/8/1945.  Posted Y List BAOR 9/9/1945.  Y Release 11/9/1945.  Returned to the UK.  Demobilised.  Relegated to Class Z Reserve 23/11/1945.  Discharged under TA Regulations 1936 Section 204 para 6a on re-enlistment.  Re-Enlisted in the 8th Battalion DLI (TA) 2/9/1948.
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry - 2nd May 1939.  Posted to the 8th Battalion DLI.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI - probably 1/9/1939 on embodiment.  Posted 13th (Home Defence) Battalion DLI 2/11/1939.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery 27/11/1942.  Underwent Artillery training.  Trained as a Medical Orderly.  Posted to the 86th Field Regiment - date not yet known.  Served Normandy.  Posted 46 Reinforcement Holding unit 7/8/1945.  Posted Y List BAOR 9/9/1945.  Granted Y Release 11/9/1945.  Returned to the UK.  Demobilised.  Relegated to Class Z Reserve 23/11/1945.  Discharged from the Reserve under TA Regulations 1936 Section 204 para 6a on re-enlistment.  Re-Enlisted in the 8th Battalion DLI (TA) 2/9/1948.
-|Decorations=Military Medal - awarded for actions with the 86th Field Regiment (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) in North West Europe.
+|Decorations=Military Medal - awarded for actions with the 86th Field Regiment (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) in North West Europe.  For citation see below.
-|Date of birth=Born 2/10/1907 New Kyo, County Durham.
+|Date of birth=Born 2/10/1907 in New Kyo, County Durham.
 |Age=83 at the time of his death.
-|Company/Battery=Company not yet known.
+|Company/Battery=11th DLI Company not yet known.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
-|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman.
+|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman in the DLI.  Medical Orderly in the Royal Artillery.
 |Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
 |Promotions=None known.
 |Wounded=Not yet known.
 |Died/Killed in action=Died Durham April 1991.
-|Home address=Resident of Stanley in 1980.  Father John George Cornell (1880 - 1948).  Mother Alice Hardy/Hughes (1878 - ?)  Married Keziah Winifred Alderson (1908 - 1992) in Lanchester June 1929.
+|Home address=Resident of Stanley in 1980.  Father John George Cornell (1880 - 1948).  Mother Alice Hardy/Hughes (1878 - ?).  Married Keziah Winifred Alderson (1908 - 1992) in Lanchester June 1929.
 |Source table=PBM
 }}

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−	Thanks are due to Tom Tunney for additional information about this soldier and to resources found on ~~ANcestry~~.co.uk.	+	Thanks are due to Tom Tunney for additional information about this soldier and to resources found on Ancestry.co.uk.

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 |Surname and forenames=Cornell Walter Leslie
 |Army number=4455279
-|Age=0
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry - 2nd May 1939.  Posted 8th Battalion DLI.  Posted 11th Battalion DLI - probably 1/9/1939.  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.  Posted 46 Reinforcement Holding unit 7/8/1945.  Posted Y List BAOR 9/9/1945.  Y Release 11/9/1945.  Returned to the UK.  Demobilised.  Relegated to Class Z Reserve 23/11/1945.  Discharged under TA Regulations 1936 Section 204 para 6a on re-enlistment.  Re-Enlisted in the 8th Battalion DLI (TA) 2/9/1948.
-|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.
 |Decorations=Military Medal - awarded for actions with the 86th Field Regiment (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) in North West Europe.
-|Date of birth=Not yet known.
+|Date of birth=Born 2/10/1907 New Kyo, County Durham.
-|Age=(At the time of his death).  Not yet known.
+|Age=83 at the time of his death.
-|Company/Battery= Company.
+|Company/Battery=Company not yet known.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
 |Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman.
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 |Promotions=None known.
 |Wounded=Not yet known.
-|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
+|Died/Killed in action=Died Durham April 1991.
-|Home address=Resident of Stanley.
+|Home address=Resident of Stanley in 1980.  Father John George Cornell (1880 - 1948).  Mother Alice Hardy/Hughes (1878 - ?)  Married Keziah Winifred Alderson (1908 - 1992) in Lanchester June 1929.
 |Source table=PBM
 }}