Rectangular protractor : Flight Officer A J D Leslie, 463 Squadron, RAAF

Six inch plastic rectangular 'A' Mark VI map protractor. The protractor has a voided rectangular centre and 'J L Leslie' is printed in blue ink on one side.

Associated with the service of 409721 Flying Officer Alan James Durham Leslie who served in 463 Squadron, RAAF. Leslie was born on 13 October 1917 in Sale, Victoria. He worked as a clerk until his enlistment in the RAAF on 10 October 1941. Leslie flew Lancasters with 463 Squadron in the bombing campaign over Germany. On 27 January 1944 the plane he was flying crashed in the vicinity of Teltow, sixteen kilometres south west from the centre of Berlin. Leslie did not survive the crash. He was buried in the Parish cemetery of Waltersdorf in Teltow, Germany.