James Gustaf Edward Le Mesurier OBE (25 May 1971 ? 11 November 2019) [1] was the British military personnel, humanitarian and volunteer worker. He 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 . [2]
He was also the director of the non-profit Mayday Rescue Foundation . [3] [4]
On 11 November 2019, Le Mesurier was found dead in the street of Beyo?lu , Istanbul, in what appears to have been a fall from his balcony. [5] [6] [7] Le Mesurier was found with fractures to his head and legs. [8] The cause of the fall or exact cause of death is under investigation. [9]