Forename: Leslie Donald
Surname: Sollars
Rank: Sergeant Wireless Operator/ Air Gunner
Regiment: Royal Air Force
Institution: St Paul’s Practising School
Leslie Donald Sollars was the son of Mr and Mrs Alan Sollars. He was born on 13 May 1921. He lived at 32 Courtenay Street and later 54 Leighton Road, Cheltenham. He was educated at St Pauls Practising School from April 1928 – October 1935. He left and was employed as a fitter by the Cheltenham Gas Company.
Leslie volunteered for aircrew duties with the Royal Air Force and became a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner attached to No. 7 squadron in 1941. Sergeant Sollars was killed in action on 28t March 1942, aged 20, during the bombing against the port of Lubeck in Germany, when the plane crashed at Ahrensburg, north-east of Hamburg. He is buried at Hamburg Cemetery. The headstone reads “In memory of our dear son. Forever in our thoughts in silence we remember”.