Lionel Alistair David Leslie

Lionel Alistair David Leslie was born in London, a scion of the aristocratic Leslie family, with Winston Churchill being his cousin and godfather. An obituary, from which this summary is taken, was published in The Times on January 21st, 1987. He grew up at Castle Leslie in County Monaghan, Ireland, went briefly to Eton College and for a longer period to a grammar school near Kendal. After Sandhurst, in 1922, he joined the Inniskilling Fusiliers and was sent to India …