5 September 2010

1511752 Sgt Leslie S Birse, RA

1511752 Sergeant Leslie Seymour Birse of the Royal Artillery, died on the 5th September 1943. At the time of his death he was serving with 6 Battery, 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. He was 25 years old and had been born in Chester but was living in Denbighshire when he enlisted. He is buried in Johannesburg's West Park Cemetery in South Africa.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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