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Pte. Leslie Cross
British Army 5th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
(d.24th Sept 1918)
Leslie Cross was killed at the Battle of Pontruet, France on 24th of September 1918.
Coalville Times article published on Friday 25th of October 1918.
Local casualties. Official news has been received by Mrs Cross, widow, of Abrams Nook, Donington-le-Heath, that her eldest son, Pte. Leslie Cross, of the Leicesters, was killed in action on September 24th. He was 22 years of age, single, and before the war worked as a hairdresser in Loughborough. He acted as hairdresser to the regiment. He had been three years in France, having joined up 3 years ago, and had been through much of the fighting without getting a scratch. He was one of Mr W. Fellows' old school boys of the Hugglescote British School. His father, Mr Harry Cross, died about three years ago.
