Lance Corporal Leslie McLeod

Leslie McLeod enlisted into the 7th Battalion Cameroon Highlanders before volunteering for airborne forces.

Lance Corporal McLeod successfully completed his training at Ringway on course 26 from 6 to 12 September 1942 and was posted to the 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment.

He went with the battalion on Operation Torch in North Africa.

L/Cpl McLeod was killed in action on 28 March 1943, aged 21, at Djebel Abiod. Initially given a field burial, he was re-interred in Beja War Cemetery, Tunisia, on 13 August 1943.

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