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Fusilier

Leonard Lishman

Service number 4980877
Military unit 10th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers
Address 1 Birks Place, Mansfield
Date of birth 21 Feb 1913
Date of death 09 Sep 1943 (30 years old)
Place of birth Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Employment, education or hobbies

General Labourer

Family history

Son of Richard and Rosamund Lishman, of 1 Birks Place, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Siblings: Richard (1906), William (1909), Harold (1910), Edith Alice (1914), and Leslie (1916). They had a brother John who died as a baby in 1908. His father, Richard, had died in 1942.

Military history

Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 21/9/1944: Accidental Death.
News has been received that Fusilier Leonard Lishman, son of Mrs Lishman and the late Mr R Lishman of 40 Maltbt Road, Mansfield was accidentally drowned in the Indian theatre of war on September 9th 1942. He was educated at St John's School, Mansfield. Sympathy is felt with his mother and his four brothers and a sister.

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