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Military service
Service number:
J/4339
Age:
25
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
407 Sqdn.
Birth:
January 27, 1916
National Mine
Enlistment:
June 27, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
December 15, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 59.
Additional information
Son of Gustave Adolph and Augusta Almquist of Rockford, Illinois.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Leonard William Almquist
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Biography
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Photo of Leonard Almquist
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Leonard William Almquist as commemorated on the RCAF Memorial Wall, Brandon, MB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens June 2023 -
Memorial
A portion of the RCAF Memorial Wall, Brandon, MB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens June 2023
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leonard William Almquist
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leonard William Almquist
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leonard William Almquist
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leonard William Almquist
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Leonard William Almquist
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 22 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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