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Military service
Service number:
J/90934
Age:
21
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
# 432 Leaside Squadron
Death:
September 16, 1944
Norreskove Forest, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Mil Plot Row 5. 12.
Additional information
Son of William and Mabel McLeod, of Ottawa, Ontario. Pilot Officer McLeod was the Bomb Aimer in the crew of the 432 (Leaside) Squadron. According to Flying Officer Gordon Lyle Stokx, (retired) their crew was not yet on Operational status with the Squadron on 16 Sept 1944. Pilot Officer McLeod volunteered to go on a raid to Kiel, Germany as a replacement on another crew. Their Halifax bomber collided with another aircraft over the target and crashed. This was his first combat mission.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Hugh Norman McLeod
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Photo of Hugh McLeod
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Document
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of HUGH NORMAN MCLEOD
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Biography
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Grave Marker
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Memorial
Pilot Officer Hugh Norman McLeod is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Hugh Norman McLeod 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 HUGH NORMAN MCLEOD
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Id card
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Photo of Hugh Norman McLeod
Hugh McLeod with his first cousin, Milton Greer (my grandfather). Photo taken in England on December 20, 1943.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh Norman McLeod
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh Norman McLeod
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh Norman McLeod
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh Norman McLeod
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh Norman McLeod
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 389 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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AABENRAA CEMETERY Denmark
Aabenra is in Jutland, on the main road from Germany into Denmark, about 24 kilometres north of the frontier. It is about 105 kilometres from the port of Esbjerg. AABENRAA CEMETERY is on the western side of the town. The 1939-45 Plot is on the left-hand side of the main path towards the rear of the cemetery.
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