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Military service
Service number:
L/2609
Age:
28
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
August 18, 1913
Nelson, British Columbia
Enlistment:
July 11, 1940
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death:
December 24, 1941
Bowen Road Hospital, Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 25.
Additional information
Son of John Leslie and Minnie Edith Warr. Husband of Janet Warr of Edmonton, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Leslie Marlow Warr
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Submitted for the project, Operation: picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Lance Corporal LESLIE MARLOW WARR is one of 30 members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Newspaper Clipping
Lance Corporal LESLIE MARLOW WARR was reported to have died on December 24, 1941 and the cause of his death was not known, in the Canadian Army¿s 107th overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on May 28 , 1942. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Unknown Marker
The Sai Wan Memorial is located at the entrance of Sai Wan Cemetery. 1,505 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War are buried or commemorated at this cemetery, of which 444 of the burials are the remains of unidentified soldiers, including those of 107 Canadian soldiers, most of whom were killed or died of wounds during the defense of Hong Kong, which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. This is one such grave marker. There is a possibility that the remains of Lance Corporal LESLIE MARLOW WARR lie beneath this grave marker. The unidentified soldiers are commemorated at the Sai Wan Memorial. -
Photo of Leslie Marlow Warr
Image courtesy of the Chilliwack Museum and Archives -
Newspaper clipping
From the WW2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.March 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leslie Marlow Warr
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leslie Marlow Warr
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leslie Marlow Warr
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leslie Marlow Warr
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leslie Marlow Warr
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leslie Marlow Warr
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leslie Marlow Warr
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leslie Marlow Warr
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Leslie Marlow Warr
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 47 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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