Pilot Officer Leo Patrick Galvin (1924-1944)

Pilot Officer Leo Patrick Galvin Veteran

Birth

6 Aug 1924

Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada

Death

13 Aug 1944 (aged 20)

Quakenbrück, Landkreis Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany

Burial

Rheinberg War Cemetery

Rheinberg, Kreis Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Add to Map

Plot

Coll. grave 17. C. 8-10.

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Military Service
Service Number: J/89872
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 115 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Pilot Officer / Air Gunner.

Leo died when his plane, Lancaster PB127, crashed near Lechterke-Wohld, Quakenbrück Germany during a bombing operation against Braunschweig in Niedersachsen. Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter pilot

The other members of the crew were:
Pilot - Flight Lieutenant Donald Gordon Belyea 41655 (PoW/Stalag Luft III Sagan)
Flight Engineer - Sergeant Raymond Henry Ginn 1895342
Navigator - Flying Officer Alan William Hickling 153282
Bomb Aimer - Flying Officer Gerald Edward Blandford 153468
Wireless Operator - Sergeant Don Gutteridge 1600730
Mid Upper Gunner - Sergeant Dennis Charles Mardling 1874914

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