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Norman Abraham Leckie

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Norman Abraham Leckie

April 6, 1942

Military Service


Service Number:

R/79805

Age:

27

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

407 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Son of Sania and Esther Leckie, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Commemorated on Page 89 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Surrey, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

Panel 105.

Location:

During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.

The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:

IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE

In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Photo of NORMAN ABRAHAM LECKIE– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Norman Leckie– F/S Norman Leckie. Detail from group shot apparently in Cremyl, Cornwall, UK.
  • Photo of Norman Leckie– F/S N.A. Leckie. Detail from group shot of aircrew of 407 Squadron Hudson V AM-696, probably dated within a week of 6 April 1942 when the aircraft was lost with all aboard. Other aircrew were P/O J.D.A. Foley, WO1 D.A. McCann, and P/O H.M. Lowry. Photo courtesy of the Leckie family (Ottawa).
  • Obituary– Norman Leckie is honoured on page 43 of the memorial book,
CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties,
compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948.  
This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume.  For additional information about these archival records, please contact:
The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives 
1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada)
telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 
facsimile:  514-931-0548 
website:     www.cjc.ca
  • Biography– Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Letter– "In 1947, the federal government established a program to honour Canadian servicemen killed in action during WW II by officially naming geographic locations and features in their memory.  Currently, more than 6,000 WW II casualties from Saskatchewan have lakes, islands or bays located throughout the country (based on where they enlisted) named after them; more than 3,900 of those are in Saskatchewan." See http://www.tpcs.gov.sk.ca/geomemorial
  • Memorial– Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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