William Desmond Leavesley
Updated:
10 MAR 2021
Airman: e777052.htm Surname: Leavesley Init: W D Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 405
P_link: p375.htm Plane: LAN PB527 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea
Crash_d: d160944 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
"Under en mission til Kiel den 16.
september 1944 nedstyrtede et "Lancaster" fly i Nordsøen. Hele besætningen
omkom." (FAF) Se p375MACR.
Flight Sergeant William Desmond Leavesley,
22 år, var søn af Charles Henry og Mary Ellen Leavesley, West Bromwich,
Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 219 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne
på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde:
CWGC)
1 mand er begravet i Sønderho, 1 i Esbjerg og 5 har ikke nogen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster fotos og Archive Report med detaljer og fotos. 7 flyvere.
This Lancaster crashed in the North Sea
on 16 September, 1944 during a bombing raid on
Kiel. All of the crew perished. (Source:
FAF)
See p375MACR.
Flight Sergeant William Desmond Leavesley, 22, was the son of Charles Henry
and Mary Ellen Leavesley, of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel 219, among more than 20,000
airmen who have no known grave. (Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 197.
1 airman is buried in Sønderho, 1 in Esbjerg and 5 have no known grave.
See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons *
No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF *
405 Squadron Association *
No. 405 Squadron RAF
Pathfinders
See also Lancaster Photos *
Lancaster -
Bomber Command Museum of
Canada *
Avro 683
Lancaster Mk X - IWM
Duxford
Lancaster-Wikipedia * LAN-HAL *
Lancaster photos
Lancaster III PB527 LQ-K
took off from
RAF Gransden
Lodge at 22.35 hrs on 15 SEP 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this and Archive
Report.)
7 airmen.