Leslie Philip Tobias

Fusilier, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
2nd Bn.
Service number: 6461873
Died 2 Sep 1944
Buried Naples War Cemetery, Italy & Commemorated at Willesden Jewish Cemetery, United Kingdom
Age 31

Headstone Inscription
‘HIS MEMORY WILL LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS AND OUR HEARTS WILL BEAT WITH PRIDE IN HIS MEMORY’


Leslie (Lazarus) was born on 6 January 1914 in Hackney, London to Polish born father Maurice and London born mother Esther nee Permutt and he had a younger brother Henry and younger sister Semele Myra.

In 1921, the family lived at 2 Rowhill Mansions, Rowhill Road in Clapton, London and Maurice was listed as a market clerk and produce merchant in Leadenhall Market, London. In 1929, Maurice set up his own produce merchant company, M.B. Tobias & Co. based at Market Buildings, 29 Mincing Lane in London.

Philip trained as a solicitor’s managing clerk and worked at 2 Bloomsbury Street, London before he enlisted into the Royal Fusiliers. Philip’s records state that he was wounded in Italy on 6 June 1944 and succumbed to his injuries on 2 September 1944.

Leslie is commemorated on his Grandmother’s headstone at Willesden Jewish Cemetery.