Inman L Y 2nd Lt 3rd Royal Scots
SECOND LIEUTENANT LESLIE YARDLEY INMAN, Royal Scots, attached 5th Wiltshire Regiment, was the younger son of G. Talfourd Inman, of Highmoor Hall, Oxon, and the Stock Exchange, and was born in 1888. Educated at Radley, where he was in the football eleven and captain of cricket, he proceeded to Hertford College, Oxford.
He became a member of the Stock Exchange, and a partner in the firm of Inman and Co. in 1914.
On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Public Schools and University Corps, and obtained a commission in the Royal Scots in May 1915. In October he took out a draft of the 5th Wilts to Gallipoli, to which regiment he was attached, and was present at the evacuation of Suvla and Helles.
Thence he went with the 5th Wilts to Mesopotamia. He was fatally wounded, being then in command of his company, in the attempt to relieve Kut, 6 April 1916.
“One of the gallant 13th Division.”
Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918