| Surname: | Leslie |
| Initials: | T |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 2873053 |
| Notes: | CMP. Enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders. 1/7/40 Transferred to CMP. 9/43 serving with 51 (H) Div Pro Coy. NOK Jean Robertson Leslie Blinkbonny, Keith, Banff. 12/12/45 Discharged. 12/9/48 he was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star with 8 Army clasp, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal. Address:- "Blinkbonny", Regent Street, Fife Keith, Bannfshire, Scotland. Theodore Leslie. Extract from the Aberdeen Press and Journal, 27/5/43. Dyce man's 300 prisoners. L/Cpl Ted Leslie, 98 Victoria Street, Dyce a military policeman found himself in a pretty predicament in the North African Desert. He and another "Redcap" had 300 Italian prisoners on their hands and only one tin of biscuits and no one had any earthly idea where they were. Desert sands stretched for miles and miles in all directions. For three days they were in the desert and L/Cpl Leslie was thankful he had training as a club steward at an air station in Scotland, for, as he said "with the ration one biscuit a man there were a good few would be Oliver Twists". L/Cpl Leslie was for eight years with the Gordon Highlanders in Palestine and India, and has more than a fair knowledge of Arabic which comes in useful in striking bargains with the "Wogs." |