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Leslie Thomas, OBE (22 March 1931 – 6 May 2014) was a Welsh author best known for his comic novel The Virgin Soldiers. [1] Early life. Thomas was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. He was orphaned at the age of 12, when his mariner father was lost at sea and his mother died only a few months later from cancer. [2] .
May 20, 2014 · Leslie Thomas, a top-selling British author who parlayed his experience as a soldier in Malaya into a darkly comic, wildly popular novel in which young troops strive to lose their virginity...
May 7, 2014 · Maev Kennedy. Wed 7 May 2014 12.07 EDT. The novelist Leslie Thomas, a Barnardo's boy who became a global bestselling author, best known for The Virgin Soldiers, has died aged 83. His wife,...
May 7, 2014 · The novelist and journalist Leslie Thomas, who has died aged 83, was one of them: he could extract on the printed page, on radio and television or in a face-to-face interview good-natured...
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May 7, 2014 · Wednesday 7 May 2014 11:24, UK. Leslie Thomas with his wife Diana. Why you can trust Sky News. Author Leslie Thomas, famous for his national service novel The Virgin Soldiers, has died at the age of 83. The journalist-turned-novelist died surrounded by family and friends at his home close to Salisbury in Wiltshire on Tuesday after a long illness.
May 7, 2014 · PA. Leslie Thomas, with his wife Diana, receiving the OBE awarded to him in 2004. The author Leslie Thomas, best known for his comic novel The Virgin Soldiers, has died aged 83. Thomas,...
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