Notes
He enrolled at Worcester College, Oxford in 1913 and the college archives add: 'Leslie Sweet-Escott was the youngest son of Sir Bickham Escott, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner and Consul-General for the Western Pacific. Leslie Sweet-Escott came up to Worcester in 1913 and obtained a commission as soon as the war broke out, in the 5th Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served in France and Belgium and was wounded on 11 July 1915 but remained at the front until ordered to hospital. Lieutenant Leslie Sweet-Escott was killed in action at Bellewaerde Farm, near Ypres, on 25 September 1915.'