Leslie Buswell

GLOUCESTER, Mass., Oct. 13—Leslie Buswell, a past com-mander in chief of the Military Order of the World Wars, died here this morning of a heart attack at his home, Stillington Hall. He was 76 years old.

Mr. Buswell was born in Rich-mond, England?. He was edu-cated at Winchester School and Caius College, Cambridge Uni-versity. He came to the United States as an actor.

During World War I he was an ambulance driver for the American Field Service. His letters home were published in a book, “Ambulance No. 10.”

After the war, Mr. Buswell engaged in research in elec-tronics in Gloucester. In the nineteen?twenties he built a home in the style of a 16th Century English manor house, overlooking Gloucester harbor, with a 200?seat theater beside it.

During World War II Mr. Buswell served overseas in the United States Air Force. He became a colonel, and was awarded the Bronze Star and other decorations, including the French Croix de Guerre.

He is survived by his widow, the former Mary Armstrong Robinson of Pittsburgh; a son, Peter Croft Buswell of New York; and a sister, Mrs. Basil Huggins, Eastbourne, England.

-NYTimes