Relief of Kut-al-Amara | Radley College Archives

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6th April 1916. Leslie Inman. F Social, 1903. 2nd Lt, Wiltshire Regt. Leslie Yardley Inman served with the Royal Scots. He was attached to the Wiltshire Regiment, serving in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) when he died of wounds received in the Relief of Kut-al-Amara. At Radley, he played soccer for the Firsts. In 1906, he was Captain of Cricket. He was Head of F Social. After school, he went to Hertford College, Oxford, and then went to work for the London Stock Exchange. He joined the Public School and University Corps soon after the outbreak of war. He received a commission in the Royal Scots in May, 1915, and left England in the following October. He served in the Gallipoli campaign, before being sent on to Mesopotamia.. There is no photo of him in the War Memorial albums. He is shown here in the Warden & Prefects group photo of 1906Aged 27