Leslie Thomas
Leslie Thomas, OBE (22 March 1931 – 6 May 2014) was a Welsh journalist and author. His best known works where his comic novels The Virgin Soldiers (1966) and Dangerous Davies, the Last Detective (1976). The Virgin Soldiers was made into a movie in 1969 and a sequel in 1977, while Dangerous Davies, the Last Detective was made into an ITV television series starring Peter Davison. The series ran for 17 episodes from 2003 to 2007.
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Thomas was born in Newport, Monmouthshire. He was became an orphan at the age of 12, when his mariner father was lost at sea and his mother died only a few months later from cancer.
Thomas after a long illness on 6 May 2014 near Salisbury, Wiltshire, aged 83. His wife, Diana, and their four children outlived him.[1]
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- ↑ "Virgin Soldiers author Leslie Thomas dies aged 83". BBC. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
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