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Military service
Service number:
J/3712
Age:
23
Rank:
Wing Commander
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
402 City of Winnipeg Squadron
Birth:
December 30, 1919
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
June 21, 1940
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
June 4, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 63.
Additional information
Son of Dr. Theodore Rupert Ford and Margaret Irene Ford, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. B.A.
Wing Commander Ford was an ace, he was credited with destroying six enemy aircraft. He was killed when his Spitfire aircraft # AA980 was shot down in the sea off Holland.
Digital gallery of Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford
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Newspaper clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War Two issue of the Fredericton (New Brunswick) Daily Gleaner c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Inscription
Close-up view of the memorial inscription. -
Memorial stained glass window
Photo taken by LCol Black, of a memorial stained glass window for Wing Commander Ford in Trinity Church, Liverpool, N.S. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post October 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Group Photo
Leslie Ford at right. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Leslie Sydney Ford
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Cemetery
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Cemetery
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Grave marker
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Grave marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Group Photo
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford
Digital gallery of
Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 160 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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