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Pilot Officer Leon Albert Dessert

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Military service

Service number: C/46828
Age: 24
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #4 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
Birth: December 11, 1919 Redpath, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: May 31, 1940
Death: July 27, 1944 Winnipeg, Manitoba

Burial/memorial information

NEW WESTMINSTER (ST. PETER'S) R. C. CEM.
Grave reference: Block 4. Lot 35. Grave C.
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Son of Joseph Emile and Delisca Dessert, of Marcelin, Saskatchewan. Husband of Irene Dessert, of New Westminster, British Columbia.

The province of British Columbia honoured Pilot Officer Dessert by naming Dessert Lake in his honour.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 290 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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NEW WESTMINSTER (ST. PETER'S) R. C. CEM. British Columbia, Canada

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