Leslie Gordon Daplyn

A Private with the Royal Army Medical Corps, Leslie died on 22nd of December 1944 aged 41.

Leslie was born at Toftmonks in 1903, a son of Henry Arthur Daplyn and Rosa S. Daplyn.

From 1 March 1909 to 10 December 1910 Leslie attended Northgate Infants School, Great Yarmouth, and his family lived at 8 Row 29. From 9 January 1911 to 2 March 1917 he attended Saint John's School, Lowestoft, and he passed his 'labour certificate'. In 1911 his family lived at 23 Kimberley Road, Lowestoft, and later they lived at 71 Kimberley Road. By 1921 Leslie's family were living at 15 Hervey Street and Leslie worked as a general labourer for Jackman and Sons at North Quay, Lowestoft. From 1925 to 1927 Leslie worked as a labourer for the London Midland and Scottish Railway at Lowestoft.   

Leslie enlisted in the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) on 29 December 1925, number 765406, and served until 22 February 1929.

On 22 December 1928 Leslie married Alice Louise London at Saint Edmund's Church, Kessingland. Leslie was living at Lowestoft and working as a bricklayer. Alice lived at Kessingland. By 1939 they were living at Syra, Prospect Place, Kessingland, and Leslie worked as a billiard hall keeper. 

Leslie enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 11 September 1941. He was discharged and died, on 22 December 1944, from carcinoma of the left lung. 

Leslie was buried at Saint Edmund's Churchyard, Kessingland, on 27 December 1944.