| Surname: | Husson |
| Initials: | L E |
| Rank: | Private |
| Army Number: | 6024060 |
| Notes: | CMP. TC. 13/6/40 enlisted Essex Regiment, 25/1/41 transferred to CMP. 30/3/46 discharged. Leslie Edward Husson. Extract from the Chelmsord Chronical, 16/3/45. Escoert for Premier now serving as a drive and canteen manager at an isolated Corps of Military Police post in the Suez Canal area is L/Cpl L Husson, whose wife and two young daughters live at Brick Cottages, Abbess Roding, near Ongar. He joined the Army in the Essex Regiment in June 1940 and the next month was posted to the Corps of Military Police. He arrived overseas in the Middle East in June, 1942 "was sent straight out to the desert just when Tobruk had Fallen," he said recently, When Mr Churchill arrived at a Cairo aerodrome, L/Cpl Husson was one of the outriders that accompanied him into town before he left to visit General Montgomery at his HQ. He has again applied for transfer to an operational unit and is now awaiting hopefully for news that he will be taken. |