JUDD, Leslie William

Massicault War Cemetery, TunisiaCredit: CWGC

Private
1st/4th Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

Leslie was born 1918 in Newport to William & Eva JUDD. 1942 in Thanet, Kent he married Muriel Ruth Pritchard PULLMAN who was living in Ramsgate, Kent around the time of Leslie’s death.

Leslie, aged 24, was Killed in Action on the 23rd of April 1943 & originally buried close to where he fell. His body was later exhumed, by the No.8 Graves Registration Unit, & reburied on the 19th of July 1944 in the Massicault War Cemetery in Tunisia & now rests beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “TO A BEAUTIFUL LIFE CAME A SUDDEN END HE DIED AS HE LIVED EVERYONE'S FRIEND”. Leslie lies alongside 1,575 of his Second World War comrades, 130 of whom remain unidentified.

Leslie is also remembered on the East Cowes War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.