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Military service
Service number:
R/127800
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
49 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
November 19, 1920
Six Nations Reserve, Ohsweken, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 20, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 29, 1942
Kalchreuth, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 11. F. 4-12.
Additional information
Son of Leslie Walter and Beatrice Capton, of Ohsweken, Ontario.
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Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
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Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Leslie James Capton is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Leslie James Capton 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 -
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Leslie is mentioned in this article about his sister Delma. From the Toronto Star May 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flight Sergeant Leslie James Capton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie James Capton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie James Capton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie James Capton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie James Capton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie James Capton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie James Capton
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Page 63 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Germany
Durnbach is a village 16 kilometres east of Bad Tolz, a town 48 kilometres south of Munich. Durnbach War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village Gmund am Tegernsee. Using the A8 from Munich, turn off at the junction Holzkirchen, taking the 318 road in the direction of Gmund am Tegernsee. At the crossroads with the 472, turn left in the direction of Miesbach. The cemetery is situated approximately 500 metres on the left from the 318/472 crossroads.
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