Captain Leslie Percival Fernandez OBE, MM, C de G, (22 March 1918 – 16 July 2009) was an English army officer in Special Forces during the Second World War who had risen from the ranks.

He was notable for having trained Violette Szabó, made famous by the 1958 film Carve Her Name with Pride starring Virginia McKenna, on which he was an advisor.

[1] Fernandez started the war with the Royal Signals but soon transferred to the Army Physical Training Corps, which brought him into contact with SOE agents.

Work to disrupt the possibility of a German counterattack against the US forces on the French side included blowing up the road in the Col de Larche, which remained blocked for two years.

[2][3] In December 1944, Fernandez received an Emergency Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant[4][5] with Special Forces and worked with the Italian partisans as a British Liaison Officer.