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Military service
Service number:
R/144066
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
434 Sqdn.
Death:
September 27, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 11. G. 1-8.
Additional information
Son of John Owen Leach and of Ottilie Leach (nee Schreiber), of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach
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Group Photo
P/O. Orville Lytle (Pilot) F/S. R C. Pedlar (Navigator) F/S. J.H.T. Monteith (Bombardier) Sergt. H. Lindsay (Fl. Engineer) Sergt. M.D. Chasmer (Wireless Op. A.G.) F/S. Harry E. Hansell (Air Gunner) F/S. J.A. Leach (Air Gunner) Sergt. E. Elder (Extra Pilot - not shown) For a story involving the crew visit: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dickieb/harry/ -
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Newspaper Clipping
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Photo of JOHN ANTHONY LEACH
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Photo of JOHN ANTHONY LEACH
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
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Memorial
Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Anthony Leach
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 180 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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