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Pilot Officer Leonard Eugene Mehden

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Pilot Officer Leonard Eugene Mehden Veteran

Birth
Randwick City, New South Wales, Australia
Death
20 May 1944 (aged 25)
Le Mans, Departement de la Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France
Burial
Le Mans, Departement de la Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France Add to Map
Plot
Plot 21. Row C. Grave 15.
Memorial ID
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Pilot Officer, Royal Australian Air Force. 423152
Posting on Death: 115 Squadron, Witchford, Cambridgeshire
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster HK547; Place - Le Mans, France; Date - 19 May 1944.
Shot down by Flak near the Target During a Raid on the Le Mans Railway Yards.
The crew of Lancaster HK547 were;
MEHDEN, Leonard Eugene - (Pilot Officer) - 423152 *
ATKIN, Samuel S – (Pilot Officer) – 112115 * RAF
HAYWARD, John V – (Flying Officer) – 139986 # RAF
MATHER, Kenneth R – (Pilot Officer) – 173890 * RAF
GILES, Reginald F A – (Flight Sergeant) – 131996 #
RAFFERTY , Joseph – (Sergeant) – 955666 #
PLUMB, Ivor C – (Sergeant) – 1804691 *
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour Bondi NSW, also his name is located at panel 127 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Carl and Letitia Mehden; husband of Jocelyne Marjorie Mehden, of Kings Cross, New South Wales, Australia.
Father Carl Eugene Mehden (1889-1980)
Mother Letitia Jane Patten (1897-1954)
Spouse Jocelyne Marjorie Forbes (Born 1917)
Pilot Officer, Royal Australian Air Force. 423152
Posting on Death: 115 Squadron, Witchford, Cambridgeshire
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster HK547; Place - Le Mans, France; Date - 19 May 1944.
Shot down by Flak near the Target During a Raid on the Le Mans Railway Yards.
The crew of Lancaster HK547 were;
MEHDEN, Leonard Eugene - (Pilot Officer) - 423152 *
ATKIN, Samuel S – (Pilot Officer) – 112115 * RAF
HAYWARD, John V – (Flying Officer) – 139986 # RAF
MATHER, Kenneth R – (Pilot Officer) – 173890 * RAF
GILES, Reginald F A – (Flight Sergeant) – 131996 #
RAFFERTY , Joseph – (Sergeant) – 955666 #
PLUMB, Ivor C – (Sergeant) – 1804691 *
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour Bondi NSW, also his name is located at panel 127 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Carl and Letitia Mehden; husband of Jocelyne Marjorie Mehden, of Kings Cross, New South Wales, Australia.
Father Carl Eugene Mehden (1889-1980)
Mother Letitia Jane Patten (1897-1954)
Spouse Jocelyne Marjorie Forbes (Born 1917)


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