James Le Mesurier

Quick Facts

Full Name	James Le Mesurier
Occupation	Military Personnel
Date Of Birth	May 25, 1971(1971-05-25)
Age	53
Date Of Death	November 11, 2019, İstanbul, Turkey
Birthplace	Changi Air Base
Country	Singapore
Horoscope	Gemini

James Le Mesurier Biography

James Le Mesurier is one of the most popular and richest Military Personnel who was born on May 25, 1971 in Changi Air Base, Singapore.

James Gustaf Edward Le Mesurier OBE (25 May 1971 – 11 November 2019) was the British co-founder of the White Helmets, a volunteer civil defence organisation in the Syrian Civil War. He was a British Army officer in the 1990s and also worked with the United Nations peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia. He was also the director of the non-profit Mayday Rescue Foundation.

In 1994, Le Mesurier was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets, British Army, as a second lieutenant (University Cadetship); the British Army was sponsoring him through university. Having graduated from university, he was appointed second lieutenant (on probation) on 20 June 1993 upon entering the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. At Sandhurst, he graduated top of class and won the Queens’ Medal award. He was promoted to lieutenant on 11 August 1993, and to captain on 11 August 1996. He served with the Royal Green Jackets in Northern Ireland, and as an intelligence officer in Bosnia and Kosovo. In 1999, he worked as a Return and Reconstruction Task Force Officer at the Office of the High Representative in the former Yugoslavia. He retired from the military on 1 June 2000.

James Le Mesurier Net Worth

James Le Mesurier is one of the richest Military Personnel from Singapore. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James Le Mesurier 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Le Mesurier was born on 25 May 1971 at RAF Changi in Singapore. He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Havilland Churchill Le Mesurier, of the Royal Marines, and his Swedish wife, Ewa. He had an older sister. Actor John Le Mesurier was a relative.

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Le Mesurier founded and was the director of Mayday Rescue, a charity that trained and supported Syrian volunteers in emergency response, including search and rescue of bombed buildings, and medical evacuation. The volunteer group developed into the White Helmets (a nickname for the Syria Civil Defence – not to be confused with the official Syrian Civil Defence Forces), an organisation which was founded in 2013. By 2015, it was reported to have more than 2,700 volunteers. Le Mesurier told Al-Jazeera that by 2015 they had saved more than 24,000 people. “At the time, I was working in Istanbul … and got together with a group of Turkish earthquake rescue volunteers”, Le Mesurier told Al-Jazeera.

Facts & Trivia

Yevgeni Ranked on the list of most popular Military Personnel. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Singapore. James Le Mesurier celebrates birthday on May 25 of every year.

Janine di Giovanni has written the claim he was a spy lacks any evidence. The accusations, from those who are opposed to any Western involvement in Syria and are backers of the Assad regime, include bloggers connected to the English-language Russian media who claim the White Helmets and Le Mesurier were intending to push for regime change in Syria. Ben Nimmo, of the social media analysis company Graphika, said such claims began around 2015 with the involvement of Syrian and Russian forces in the War, and increased after their military began the Siege of Aleppo in late 2016 with their targeting of hospitals, a potential war crime, which the White Helmets witnessed and were by now able to provide video evidence.

What happened to James Le Mesurier?

In just 18 months, James was dead. On 11 November 2019 at around 05:00, a worshipper on his way to morning prayers discovered James Le Mesurier’s crumpled body lying on the cobblestones in a narrow alleyway in Istanbul. He had apparently fallen from the apartment above his office, three floors up.

Is James Le Mesurier related to john Le Mesurier?

Le Mesurier was born on 25 May 1971 at RAF Changi in Singapore. He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Havilland Churchill Le Mesurier, of the Royal Marines, and his Swedish wife, Ewa. He had an older sister. Actor John Le Mesurier was a relative.

Do the White Helmets get paid?

Volunteers who worked full-time received a $150 monthly stipend , a figure set by donors. In July 2019, this was raised to $250. It has a co-ordination office on the Turkish-Syrian border in Gaziantep and a training centre in Turkey. At the height of its operations, it had 4,000 volunteers in 200 teams.

Are the White Helmets still active in Syria?

The Syrian Civil Defense force, known as the White Helmets, has been working to rescue, evacuate and give emergency care to civilians under attack since 2014. The all-volunteer force says it has saved more than 100,000 civilian lives and that at least 252 of its members have been killed in the process.

Who started the White Helmets?

James Le Mesurier