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 Born 2/10/1907 New Kyo, County Durham.
Age 83 at the time of his death.
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.
Company/Battery Company not yet known.
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 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.
Source table PBM
Thanks are due to Tom Tunney for additional information about this soldier and to resources found on ANcestry.co.uk.
