Lance Sergeant Leslie Westall

Leslie Westall was born in Burnley and lived in South West London. He enlisted in the Royal Corps of Signals and volunteered for Airborne forces.

Lance Sergeant Westall successfully completed parachute training and was posted to J Section, attached to 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, 1st (Airborne) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, and took part in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem).

L/Sgt Westall is known to have been killed operating his radio set in a house on Eusebiusbinnensingel, near the Rhine Bridge at Arnhem (Roll of Honour, 5th edition, 2011), on 19 September 1944, aged 24, and is commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial to the missing.

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