 After only a short while Leslie Harradine was injured when his horse was shot and he spent a good deal of time in hospital back in England.While there he met his future wife Edith Denton whom he married in 1917, and the following year became a father to his first child Jessie.Canada did not seem, to Leslie, to be a suitable place for his wife and child so after peace was declared in 1918 he passed his half of the farm to his brother and settled into family life in Luton, Bedfordshire where he had two more daughters and occupied himself by doing bits and pieces of painting and modelling.