Rifleman Leslie Gordon Berkowitz was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 6 February 1914, in Gloucester, the son of Polish-born David and Lily Berkowitz (née King).[1] In 1939, Berkowitz was working as a waiter.[2]
Berkowitz is presumed to have died on or after 5 October 1943 while attempting to escape from a prisoner of war camp. He had been captured on 20 January 1943, in Tunisia, while serving with the London Irish Rifles, The Royal Ulster Rifles.[3] Berkowitz had married in 1940, to Annie Winifred Addison.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.
Notes[]
- ↑ Family Tree, genealogy.com. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018.
- ↑ The National Ex-Prisoner of War Association, prisonerofwar.org.uk. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
References[]
- Berkowitz, Leslie Gordon, cwgc.org. Retrieved 18 October 2015.