Acting
Staff Sergeant Leslie RIDINGS
1116413
07 February 1941 Enlisted
into the Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
Posted
to the 41st Survey Training Regiment
13 March
1941 Joined
the Regular Army
08 August
1941 Mustered
and Appointed Battery Surveyor
09 August
1941 Posted to
71st Medium Regiment
22 October
1941 Relinquished
Appointment of Battery Surveyor at own request
31 January
1942 Mustered and
Promoted Battery Surveyor Class III
18 July
1942 Transferred
to the Army Air Corps
Posted 1
Glider Pilot Regiment
Appointed Acting
Corporal
16 October
1942 Granted War
Substantive Rank of Corporal
09 March
1943 Appointed
Acting Sergeant
06
September 1943 Granted War
Substantive Rank of Sergeant
29 December
1943 Appointed Acting
Staff Sergeant
05 June
1944 Emplaned
U.K. (Tarrant Rushton –Dorset-)
06 June 1944 Deplaned
North West Europe and killed in Action
Overseas Service:
North
Africa 23
August 1943-14 September 1943
Medals :
1939-45 Star
Italy Star
France
& Germany Star
Defence
Medal
War Medal
1939-45