MALE, Leslie Percival
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Rank:
Rifleman
Unit / Base:
9 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
King's Royal Rifle Corps
Service:
Army
Service Number:
4925822
Honours & Awards:
Born:
Tuesday, July 4, 1922
Died :
Saturday, March 5, 2005
Age:
82
Served in 2 Troop. Wounded 1944 Central Mediterranean (full date not recorded). Member of the Commando Association from Selly Oak, Birmingham.
10.07.1943 married Joyce Mary Southall.
1948 joined Birmingham City Police.
1957 Police Constable promoted Sergeant, Selly Oak Police Station, West Midlands.
1957 Police Constable promoted Sergeant, Selly Oak Police Station, West Midlands.
09.01.1974 elected Chairman UK Police Federation. He had been National Vice Chairman for 5 years, Chairman of the Birmingham branch, and Chairman of the Sergeant's Branch.
1976 retired from the Police Force.
11.06.1977, lately Sergeant West Midlands Police, appointed M.B.E. (Civil Division).
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/85 and 87.
WW2 Medal cards Index.
Commando Association newsletters 24 (1957) and 65 (1977).
Report on election London Evening News 9 January 1974, p1.
Report on election Birmingham Daily Post, 10 January 1974, p1.
Report on retirement Wolverhampton Express and Star 9 July 1976, p39.
MBE - London Gazette 47234, page 7097.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 120 (2005).
Government Probate Death Index, Birmingham, Probate date 22/6/2005.
[Image above] Report in the Birmingham Daily Post, 5 August 1976, p3.
[Image below] Marriage announcement Birmingham Mail 13 July 1943, p2.
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