DAMBUSTERS Weller, Leonard George

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  • SURNAME
Weller
  • FORENAME
Leonard George
  • UNIT
617 Squadron,R.A.F.V.R.
  • RANK
Pilot Officer
  • NUMBER
142507
  • DATE OF DEATH
17th May 1943
  • AGE
28
  • GRAVESITE
Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery,Netherlands 27.A.6
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 1915 Harrow,Middlesex
son of Arthur Edward and Marian Augusta Weller,Hornsey,Middlesex
husband of Dorothy Charlotte Weller,Harpenden,Hertfordshire
RAF 1940
9 RC 22.8.1940
96 Squadron 11.9.1940
51 Group Pool 26.9.1940
1 RW 11.10.1940
4 ITW 19.10.1940
51 Group Pool 8.1.1941
10 (S) RC 29.4.1941
2 Signal School 22.8.1941
Mount Batten 21.11.1941
172 Squadron 28.4.1942
2 Signal School 31.7.1942
8 AGS 31.7.1942
16 OTU 1.9.1942
1654 CU 12.12.1942
106 Squadron 5.2.1943
Pilot Officer 21.2.1943
617 Squadron 29.3.1943
w.op/air gunner
Lancaster ED865
Op.Chastise (Sorpe Dam)
hit by flak and crashed 0200 hours near Gilze Rijen airfield,Holland
 

DATE OF DEATH:

17-May-1943
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