Identity
Person No.
10960
Service No.
70016
Last Name
First Name
Leslie John
Initials
L J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
32
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Ships were ordered to embark evacuation parties and leave Tobruk harbour when Axis forces started shelling the town on 20 June 1942. Under heavy fire and was the last Allied ship to leave Tobruk. Her decks were cramped with soldiers evacuated from Tobruk and outside the harbour she took a disabled tug in tow. Early the next morning she was attacked at close range by six Italian MAS boats. With her captain killed, nearly half her ship's company wounded and all ammunition expended, it was finally decided to abandon ship
Military Service
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Cemetery
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Notes
Son of Joseph and Maude Jagger, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa; husband of Grace Adelaide Jagger, of Johannesburg. *** On HMSAS Parktown Memorial in Pieter Roos Park, Parktown.
Citations
LG Sup 10 November 1942 pg. 4883
External References
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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samilhistory.com
open source ↗
samilhistory.com Remembrance / Peter Dickens SAN WW2 honour roll
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