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Military service
Service number:
R/140182
Age:
22
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class I
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
11 Sqdn.
Birth:
October 28, 1922
Drumheller, Alberta
Enlistment:
November 14, 1941
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
February 19, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 4. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of James Robert Whigham and Maude Ellen (nee Oram) Teasdale of Edmonton, Alberta. Twin brother of Flying Officer Thomas Leo Teasdale, RCAF, killed in action on 25 March 1944, and brother of James Frederick, Richard Robert and Kathleen Ellen.
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Teasdale, Harry Leo Whigham - Warrant Officer, Class 1. Born October 28, 1922, at Drumheller, Alta. Educated at Drumheller. Entered the service of the Bank 12th November, 1940. Served at Drumheller and Hanna, Alta. Enlisted 8th November, 1941, from the latter branch in R.C.A.F. Sergeant in April, 1943; Flight Sergeant in September, 1943; Warrant Officer, Class II, in June, 1944; Warrant Officer, Class I, in January, 1945. Trained at Edmonton and Calgary, Alta., and Debert and Dartmouth, N.S. Served with 161 Squadron based at Dartmouth. Posthumously awarded R.C.A.F. Operational Wing by Chief of Air Staff "in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy." Missing when the bomber on which he was flying was wrecked over the Atlantic Ocean on 19th February, 1945. Officially presumed dead 8th August, 1945. <br><i>From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.</i> -
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Class I Harry Leo Teasdale as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023.
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Warrant Officer Class I Harry Leo Teasdale
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Warrant Officer Class I Harry Leo Teasdale
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Warrant Officer Class I Harry Leo Teasdale
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Warrant Officer Class I Harry Leo Teasdale
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Warrant Officer Class I Harry Leo Teasdale
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Warrant Officer Class I Harry Leo Teasdale
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Commemorated on:
Page 569 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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