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Pte. Leslie Richard Parker
British Army 1st Battalion Essex Regiment
from:London
My Grandfather, Leslie Richard Parker, joined the Essex Regiment as a 17 year old in 1938, and was part of the 2nd/4th Battalion based in East Anglia between 1941 & 1942 when he was posted overseas to India where he joined the 1st Battalion of the Essex Regiment which was posted to the(Special Forces) 23rd Indian Infantry Brigade Columns 44, 56 part of the Chindit force. He served in India & Assam until he was demobbed in April 1946, Sadly my Grandfather died before I was born and we have no pictures of him