Leslie Berkowitz

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).Family Tree, genealogy.com. Retrieved 18 October 2015. In 1939, Berkowitz was working as a waiter.Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. 
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.The National Ex-Prisoner of War Association, prisonerofwar.org.uk. Retrieved 18 October 2015. Berkowitz had married in 1940, to Annie Winifred Addison.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Medjez-el-Bab Memorial.
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==References==
*Berkowitz, Leslie Gordon, cwgc.org. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
Category:1914 births
Category:1943 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Polish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Category:Rifleman