Private Leslie George “Les” Dutchburn

Private Leslie George “Les” Dutchburn, youngest of the Dutchburn brothers, was born in Paris in 1923. He enlisted as a teenager during the war.

After the war, he returned to Paris. He lived on Burwell Street and worked as a pressman. In 1962, at the age of 39, Les married Kathryn Ann Smith, who was 22 at the time. The couple had a son, Jason.

Les died at Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital in Toronto in 1999 and is buried in Belleville Cemetery with his wife.