Ivor Gordon McLeod       Photo: Knud Riis  Updated: 04 MAR 2021

Airman: a014089.htm Surname: McLeod Init: I G Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 426

P_link: p135.htm Plane: WEL Z1680 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d300143 Buried_d: b300443 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 11. 10

Kl. 12.54 den 30. januar 1943 lettede WEL Z1680 på et dagsbombetogt mod Oldenburg.
SOS - signal modtaget kl. 16.29 fra en position 10 miles fra den hollandske kyst. Intet hørt siden.
Flyet styrtede i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p135MACR)

I. G. McLeod blev fundet i Esbjerg Havn (omkring her). Han blev begravet i Esbjerg den 30. april 1943. (FAF)
Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Ivan Gordon McLeod gjorde tjeneste i Royal Canadian Air Force. (Kilde: CWGC)

3 flyvere fra WEL Z1680 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 3 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 6 flyvere.

At 12.54 hrs. on 30 January 1943 WEL Z1680 took off from RAF Dishforth on a day bombing raid
targeting Oldenburg.

SOS - message received at 16.29 hrs. from a position 10 miles off the coast of Holland. Nothing heard later.
The plane crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source: p135MACR)

I. G. McLeod was found in the harbour of Esbjerg (about here). He was buried in Esbjerg on 30 April 1943.
(Source: FAF) His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Ivan Gordon McLeod served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 210.

3 airmen from WEL Z1680 were buried in Esbjerg. 3 airmen have no known grave.
See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 426 (Thunderbird) Squadron)
RCAF 426 "Thunderbird" Squadron Association. 
Wellington III Z1680 OW- took off from RAF Dishforth at 12.54 hrs. on 30 JAN 1943.
(Source: p135MACR * Aircrew Remembered has this).   6 airmen.