Leslie George Garnham

A Driver with 1 Mechanical Equipment Unit, Leslie died on 26 November 1946, aged 21. 

Leslie was born at Rickenhall, Suffolk, on 8 July 1925, a son of Ernest George and Minnie Garnham. In the 1930s his family lived at Redgrave and, by 1946, his mother was living at 8 Wellington Road, Pakefield.  

Leslie enlisted in the Royal Engineers, at Gosforth, on 16 December 1943. He served in North-West Europe with 1 Mechanical Equipment Unit and was later part of the British Army of the Rhine. Leslie was found on 26 November 1946 with a gun-shot wound to his head. He was taken to 26 (Hanover) British Miliary Hospital, but was dead when he arrived. A pistol was found next to his body and a Court of Inquiry concluded that Leslie had taken his own life.