South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 22 January 1944

Gunner Killed

Gunner Lesley Ronald Goff (25), whose wife lives at 81, Arnold Crescent, Mexboro’, has been killed in action in Italy, where he was with the Eighth Army.

He had been in the Army three years, and went to the Middle East over 18 months ago.

Gunner Goff, who was a dairyman at Didsbury before joining the Army, warried Miss Laura Moxon, of Arnold Crescent.

He had never seen his baby daughter.

From C.W.G.C.:

Gunner
LESLIE RONALD GOFF
Service Number: 951766
Regiment & Unit/Ship Royal Artillery 53 Field Regt.

Date of Death Died 18 December 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY XIV. E. 23. Italy