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

Square plastic protractor with a small hole in the centre. The protractor is housed in a square cardboard case which is closed with cotton string that is looped through two holes in the cardboard and tied around a small cardboard and metal disc. On the front side of the protractor case, in blue ink is written 'Protractor A.J.D Leslie'.

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.