Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Franklyn George Leslie
In memory of:
Rifleman Franklyn George Leslie
April 13, 1947
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Military Service
E/30410
28
Army
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Additional Information
June 14, 1918
Grindstone, Grosse-Île, Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec
August 27, 1940
Cap-aux-Meules, Quebec
Baptized George Franklin Leslie, at the Grindstone Anglican Church, Magdalen Islands, on 10 August 1918.
Son of Frank Willoughby Leslie and Elizabeth (alias Isabel) St.Clair Stewart, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Liberated from Kakodale Camp, Japan, by the American troops on 5 September 1945, he was repatriated on board American Hosptial Ship USS Rescue (AH-18) and he arrived in San Francisco, California, on 8 October 1945; in Victoria, British Columbia on the 11th; at the Parc Savard hospital (now. Christ-Roi hospital) in Québec on the 21st. On October 26, he left for Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he died at the military hospital in Cornwallis.
Commemorated on Page 597 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
GRINDSTONE (ST. LUKE'S) PARISH CEMETERY
Quebec, Canada
N/A
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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