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Military service
Service number:
J/26111
Age:
25
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
424 Sqdn.
Birth:
November 27, 1918
Woodrow, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
May 27, 1942
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
July 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 3.
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Son of Taylor and Maria Sykes of Fort Benton, Montana.
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Flying Officer Leonard Taylor Sykes is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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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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Flying Officer Leonard Taylor Sykes is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flying Officer Leonard Taylor Sykes
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard Taylor Sykes
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard Taylor Sykes
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Leonard Taylor Sykes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 457 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOISSY-SOUS-ST. YON COMMUNAL CEMETERY Essonne, France
Boissy-sous-St. Yon is a village 28 kilometres south-south-east of Versailles, and 7 kilometres south-south-west of Arpajon. The cemetery is on the south side of the village at the end of a by-road leading from the road to the neighbouring village of Breuillet.
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