Date of birth:

1921

Date of death:

November 3rd, 1944 (Fijnaart/Noord-Brabant, the Netherland)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Grave Roman Catholic Cemetery Fijnaart
Grave: Western Pa.

Service number:

873144

Nationality:

British

Private Leslie Albert George Goodspeed, 873144. Private, Essex Regiment, 2nd Bn., son of George and Florence Goodspeed of Walthamstow, Essex; husband of G. F. Goodspeed.

He was killed on 3 November 1944 near a ditch in an orchard in Fijnaart. It is known that around this day British soldiers came under heavy rifle/mitraille fire in or near an orchard on the Blaaksedijk. He may have been killed in this fighting. His body was found by Gerard Oprins and his daughter Ciska de Veth-Oprins and handed over to the British army.

On 3 November 2024, 80 years after his date of death, the finder's grandson played the English national anthem and The Last Post on his saxophone at his grave out of respect.

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• Photo 1: Arjan Vrieze
• Photo 2: Wim de Veth
• - Musical tribute to the grave.
  - Location where the body was found.
  - Private Leslie Albert George Goodspeed | War Casualty Details 2766245 | CWGC
  - Pvt Leslie Albert George Goodspeed (1921-1944) - Find a Grave-gedenkplek
  

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