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Military service
Service number:
J/35910
Age:
30
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
428 Sqdn.
Death:
August 17, 1944
Sea SW of Sejero, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 245.
Additional information
Son of Henry G. Brown, and of Ellen N. Brown, of Downsview, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
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Runnymede Memorial
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Group Photo
Photo of aircrew.<P> L to R: Slater, Lamb, Brown, Srigley, Boyce, Toomey, unknown.<P> Photo provided by R. E. Toomey to Air War Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com Used with permission. -
Photo of Leonard George Brown
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Crest
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial Plaque
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Group Photo
From left to right, William Fairgrieve, Joseph Srigley, Leonard Brown all died August 17, 1944. Photo from Robert E. Toomey, their crew mate. Courtesy of C. Lafleur -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of LEONARD GEORGE BROWN
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of LEONARD GEORGE BROWN
Crew of Lancaster KB751 who perished August 17, 1944. Photo by Sgt Robert E. Toomey, Flight Engineer who was only survivor and taken prisoner on the Danish island Sejero. *** From left: Harry Slater (Bomb Aimer), Robert R. Boyce (Wireless Operator), William A. Lamb (Mid-upper Gunner), Leonard G. Brown (Navigator), William C. Fairgrieve (Pilot), Joseph Ralph Gordon Srigley (Tail Gunner). Crewmate Robert E. Toomey (Flight Engineer) was sole survivor and POW at Stalag Luft VII, Bankau. *** Submitted by Claude D. Lafleur, son-in-law of crewmate Robert Toomey. Credit website: "Wartime Diary of Robert E. Toomey" website. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard George Brown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 260 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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