HOLLINGWORTH, Leslie

Rank: 
Private
Unit / Base: 
5 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps: 
King's Own Royal Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14604372
Born: 
Saturday, January 27, 1917
Died : 
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Private Leslie Hollingworth was wounded 31 January 1945 during operations in Burma. Leslie was a Metropolitan Police Officer who volunteered for the Commandos joining HM Armed Forces on 19 May 1943. In 1939 he was a Police Constable residing at Bromley by Bow Police Section House, Poplar.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/89.
The 1939 Register covering Poplar.

Tony Moore, FRHistS and Police Historian.


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