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Military service
Service number:
J/36247
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
August 5, 1921
Tremp, Spain
Enlistment:
June 25, 1942
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
March 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
C48. 11.
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Son of Leicester and Martha Tingle, of Villanueva y Geltru, Province of Barcelona, Spain.
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Toronto Star "Pages of Past" online archive 1943 Jan 16 p.2 _______________________ Leicester Tingle was the nephew of C.N. Tingle, Chilliwack. He was born at Tremp, Lerida, Spain and spent much of his life in the United States. He was educated in Closter, New Jersey and later at Santa Monica, California. Leicester spent several months in Chilliwack, British Columbia in 1942 with his uncle, at which time he became well known to many local residents. He enlisted in the R.C.A.F. from Chilliwack and was trained in Vancouver and Edmonton as a pilot. Posted to 45 Air Transport Group of Ferry Command, he was killed when the Dakota aircraft he was flying crashed at Meeks Field, Iceland March 5, 1944. Leicester's cousins, A.M. Tingle and C.N. Tingle were also killed when serving with the R.C.A.F. - Information courtesy of the Chilliwack BC Museum and Archives. -
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Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle
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Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle
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Commemorated on:
Page 463 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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