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Rifleman Franklyn George Leslie

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Military service

Service number: E/30410
Age: 28
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: June 14, 1918 Grindstone, Grosse-Île, Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Enlistment: August 27, 1940
Death: April 13, 1947 Halifax, Nova Scotia

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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.

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Page 597 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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GRINDSTONE (ST. LUKE'S) PARISH CEMETERY Quebec, Canada

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