240478 Pte. Leslie Andrew Kellie British Army from:Rock Ferry, Birkenhead Leslie Kellie was a volunteer in WWll and was part of a Liverpool (I thought Scottish regiment) but The King's rings a bell. Anyway, we had a photo of him in uniform in a kilt with a forage cap. He died about 1985.
During the war he was in Burma and all he would ever say about Burma was, "Oh mate........" He couldn't talk about it beyond telling me when I was a young teenager that it was so bad, he drank dirty water on purpose to make himself ill so that they woukd send him home.. they did send him home but it took so long. He got back after those who stayed and fought, were repatriated.
For years afterwards, till the day he died, he was every so often, a patient at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine where he would have his stomach lining flushed to try and clear it of lice but it never worked.
In his regiment was one of my old colleagues called Gordon Mckenzie of Liverpool.
Les boxed for his regiment in a very light weight, there wasn't much of him on a good day but after Burma he was never anything but very thin. His widow was my Aunt Madge and she was a member of The Burma Star Association.
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