Private Leslie J Churchman, Service Number 8876

Private Leslie J Churchman, Service Number 8876

2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment

Died 30th September 1915

Killed in the Battle of Loos, around Sanctuary Wood

Buried in Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Zillebeke, Belgium

Plot II, Row C, Grave 7 (Reg. B115)

Son of Mr A Churchman, Sawston

The name China Wall comes from a communication trench which ran close by known as the Great Wall of China, whilst the name Perth probably originated with the 2nd Scottish Rifles, who took the cemetery over from the French in June 1917. It was also known during the war as Halfway House Cemetery.