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Military service
Service number:
J/9562
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
428 Sqdn.
Birth:
June 27, 1920
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 5, 1941
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 28, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
9. E. 11.
Additional information
Son of Angus G. McLeish and Mary McLeish, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Brother of Duncan and Wing Commander Wallace Angus Grayton McLeish, who died on June 20, 1957, while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer John Alexander Mactavish McLeish
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Grave marker
Took a picture of the gravestone while visiting the cemetery. -
Cemetery
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Photo of John Alexander MacTavish McLeish
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Memorial
Flying Officer John Alexander MacTavish McLeish 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 -
Memorial
Flying Officer John Alexander MacTavish McLeish is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Alexander Mactavish McLeish
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Alexander Mactavish McLeish
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 192 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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