Name: Leslie Robert Durkee Rank: Private Service Number: 2720415 Service: I Company, 301st Infantry Regiment, 76th Division US Army, American Expeditionary Force Date of Birth: October 18, 1895 Place of Birth: Ohio, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: 8 Columbia St., Swampscott, Massachusetts Occupation: Chauffeur for HM Durkee (Father) Marital Status: Single Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Light Date of Discharge: May 12, 1919 Age: 23 Date of Death: April 14, 1941 Age: 45 Cemetery: Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Grave: Mulberry Path, Lot-37, Grave 2 Leslie Robert Durkee Sr. was the son of Jesse Morgan Durkee (1860-1927) and Abigail Raymond ‘Abbie’ Crosby Durkee (1862-1904) of Yarmouth Co., NS, and the husband of Marian Harvey (Underwood) Durkee Moffett (1898-1965). His children were Sergeant Raymond Jesse Durkee (1923-2008), Second Lieutenant Leslie Robert ‘Les’ Durkee Jr. (1924-1945), Senior Master Sergeant Leon Carl Durkee (1926-2009), and Clayton Allen Durkee (1930-1996). Three of his sons served in the US military; and his son, Second Lieutenant Leslie Robert Durkee, served in the USAAF and was killed in action in China during WWII. Leslie Sr. registered for the US Draft on September 12, 1918. Enlisting in mid-1918, he departed the US for France with the American Expeditionary Forces aboard the SS Cedric on July 6, 1918. He served with I Company of the 301st Infantry Regiment, 76th Division in the US Army. He was discharged on demobilization, May 12, 1919.

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