Franklin Maurice Leslie Gunner 4805338
Personnel Entry
Name Franklin Maurice Leslie
Army number 4805338
Rank Gunner
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards
Date of birth Not yet ascertained.
Age (At time of death). Not yet known.
Unit Enlisted in the Lincolnshire Regiment 15/3/1940. Underwent Basic Training - possibly at a Primary Training Centre. Posted to ? Battalion. Transferred to the Royal Artillery 22/12/1942 and posted to the 101st Anti-Tank Regiment. Posted to the 1st Mountain Regiment 17/7/1943. Served Normandy. Posted to 65 Transit Camp 13/11/1945. Posted to Patt No. 1 Transit HQ 15/11/1945. Returned to the UK. Posted Y Release 17/4/1946. Relegated to the Z (T) Reserve 18/6/1946. Demobilised.
Company/Battery 474th Mountain Battery.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Details awaited.
Joined Brigade Not yet known.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not so far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Date of death not yet ascertained.
Home address From Battery Association records he was known to have lived at "Dunromin", Welbourne, Lincoln.
Source table
Information on this Page has been extracted from the Royal Artillery Tracer Card found for this soldier on Ancestry.co.uk
