Leslie Ford
Service number
4979284
Military unit
9th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
04 Jan 1918
Date of death
26 May 1940 (22 years old)
Place of birth
Brownhills, Staffordshire
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
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Family history
Son of Samuel and Harriet Ford, of 3 Wilberforce Road, Bull Farm, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Harriet had died in 1935 aged 39.
Siblings: Samuel born in 1915 Ronald V (1924-28), Cyril (1926) and Douglas born in 1930.
Samuel, in the 1939 England and Wales Register is classed as coal miner invalided out of the mine.
Military history
At the outbreak of war the 9th Bn was based at Bulwell. In April 1940, as part of the 46th Infantry Division they were sent to France for training and labour duties. However when the German Army broke through they were sent to the front line, despite being only partially trained and ill-equipped.
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