Leslie Harry Inkpen, 1959

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Unknown, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white negative of a portrait of Mr. Leslie Harry Inkpen.

Notes

Leslie Harry Inkpen was born at Sturminister-Newton, Dorset, England, on December 27, 1909 and came to Whitby in 1951. He was a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy in charge of 16 landing craft at Juno Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944 and President of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 112 in 1959. He served on the Whitby Town Council from 1958 to 1961 and 1965-66. He was a life member of the Legion in Whitby and an acting Padre in his later years. Mr. Inkpen was Master of Composite Lodge AF and AM in 1962 and a charter member of David T. Campbell Lodge the same year. He was Chairman of the building committee for the new Masonic Hall in 1963. He was Chairman of the Whitby Branch of St. John Ambulance, President of the Whitby Boy Scouts and a Sideman, Warden and lay reader at All Saint's Anglican Church. Mr. Inkpen was named the winner of the Peter Perry Award as Whitby's Outstanding Citizen of 1983 and received an Ontario Bicentennial Medal in 1984. He was an Accountant and Training and Fire Safety Officer at Dunlop Tire in Whitby. Mr. Inkpen died at Whitby on June 5, 2001 and was buried at Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin.

Date of Original

1959

Dimensions

Width: 1 in
Height: 1.5 in

Subject(s)

Fraternal lodges
Royal Canadian Legion
World War Two, 1939-1945

Personal Name(s)

Inkpen, Leslie Harry

Corporate Name(s)

Royal Canadian Legion ; Dunlop Tire

Local identifier

A2016_017_035A

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.88342 Longitude: -78.93287

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