Harold Leake                                            Updated:  07 NOV 2012

Airman: a019014.htm Surname: Leake Init: H Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 235

P_link: p044.htm Plane: BLE T1807 Operation: Patrol Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d081141 Buried_d: b030142 C_link: c019.htm At_Next: Frederikshavn, gr. 17

Den 8. november 1941 styrtede BLE T1807 i Nordsøen under eskorteflyvning for 3 flyvebåde og
u-båden HMS Rubis på eftersøgning. Flyet forlod RAF Dyce kl. 07.25 den 8. november 1941.
Det ramte vandet kl. 11.17 og sank. Hele besætningen omkom.

Liget af Sgt Leake drev ind nær Hirtshals (omkring her).
Han var Air Observer på BLE T1807. (Kilde: MACR)

Sergeant (Observer) Harold Leake, 21 år, var søn af Donald George og Catherine Leake, Goole,
Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han blev begravet i Frederikshavn den 3. januar 1942. (Kilde: FAF) 3 flyvere.

On 8 November 1941 crashed into the North Sea. It escorted 3 flying boats and HMS Rubis
(submarine) on search. The plane left RAF Dyce at 0725 hours on 8 November 1941.
 It hit the water at 1117 hours and sank. All of the crew perished.

The body of Sgt Leake drifted ashore near Hirtshals (about here.)
He was the Air Observer of BLE T1807. (Source: MACR)

Sergeant (Observer) Harold Leake, 21, was the son of Donald George and Catherine Leake,
of Goole, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)

He was buried in Frederikshavn on 3 January 1942. (Source: FAF)

See No. 235 Squadron RAF.
This Blenheim from RAF Coastal Command took off from RAF Dyce - now Aberdeen Airport. 3 airmen.