243659 Major. James Leo Tanner MBE.British Army 1st Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from:120 Earls Road, Southampton Leo Tanner was born in Southampton in 1917, an illigitimate child, and bought up in Hollybrook Children's Home. He ran away aged 15, not able to read or write properly and signed up to what he thought was going to New York but in fact signed up to the KOYLI. The army trained and took him under their wing teaching literacy and math, from a band boy bugle player to a major quartermaster serving over 36 years with the battalion.
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