He born in 1913 to Bertie and Nellie (Pollard) at Newent, as the third of five children. Bertie was a dairyman and the family lived for many years in Paganhill Lane, Stroud. They had moved by 1935 to 29 Spillmans Road (now number 61). Nellie died in 1937, and Bertie married again in 1938.
In 1939 Leslie and his brother Cecil lived there too. Leslie worked as a “skilled centreless grinder operator”.
Little is known of his service with the RAF Volunteer Reserve. He is recorded as dying from enteritis at 16.00 hrs on 2nd September 1942 at 19 General Hospital. He is buried in Fayid (Egypt) where a military airfield was used by the RAF and the US Army Air Forces during the North Africa campaign against Axis forces.
