Private Leslie Walter Banting

Army Number: 93992

Battalion: Depot Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Ventnor, Isle of Wight and lived at Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Banting, of Ryecroft, Atherlee Road, Shanklin. He was working in his father’s florist and nursery business prior to enlisting at Winchester, Hampshire. He died of wounds on 12th October 1917, at King George’s Hospital, London.

Buried: Shanklin Cemetery, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Grave 1390

Private Leslie Walter Banting is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Shanklin War Memorial, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.