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Military service
Service number:
R/166793
Age:
35
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
June 30, 1909
East Hanney, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
May 29, 1942
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
January 21, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Block 3. Plot 23. Lot 6.
Additional information
Son of John and Mabel Tame, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Leslie John Tame
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Photo of LESLIE JOHN TAME
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Grave Marker
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Attestation paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Claresholm airfield memorial 1 Flight Sergeant Tame (Instructor - RCAF R/166793), Pilot Officer Sutton (Pilot - RAF 195512) and Leading Aircraftman Vidler (Student - RAAF 118598) were killed when RCAF Anson 8627 from 15 SFTS at Claresholm collided with a ferry cable suspended 25 feet above the ice near Bassano, Alberta during a low level navigational exercise -
Memorial
Claresholm airfield memorial 2 -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie John Tame
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie John Tame
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie John Tame
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie John Tame
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie John Tame
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Leslie John Tame
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 569 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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VANCOUVER (MOUNTAIN VIEW) CEMETERY British Columbia, Canada
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