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Military service
Service number:
R/183842
Age:
20
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
431 Sqdn.
Death:
February 26, 1944
Klelund Plantage, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave A. 8. 24-25.
Additional information
Son of Mordwan D. and Pearl C. Wardell, of Waterford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
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Cemetery
Photos and excerpt of story used with permission courtesy Air War Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com Halifax V LK705 from 431 (RCAF) Sqn took off at 20:27 from Croft on a Gardening (Mining) operation in the Baltic Sea. It was attacked by a German night fighter while flying at 5000 metres altitude and crashed at 23.43 hours in the Klelund plantation killing the crew of seven. They were laid to rest in two graves in Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg on 3/3 1944. They were: F/S (P) Edward C. Howey RCAF F/S (N) George E. Stevenson RCAF F/S (AG) Alexander M. Munro RCAF Sgt (AG) Leo T. Wardell RCAF Sgt. (AB) Alexander D. MacGillivray RAF Sgt (W/Op) Raymond L. Bates RAF Sgt. (FE). Edward R. Metcalf, RAF -
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Memorial
On 5/5 1946 a memorial stone was inaugurated at crash site. Photo courtesy of www.flensted.eu.com -
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In Memory of the men from Norfolk County who gave their lives in World War II.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
In Memory of the men from Norfolk County who gave their lives in World War II.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of LEO THOMPSON WARDELL
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Photo of LEO THOMPSON WARDELL
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Photo of LEO THOMPSON WARDELL
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From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Leo Thompson Wardell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 472 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ESBJERG (FOURFELT) CEMETERY Denmark
Esbjerg is a port in south-western Jutland. ESBJERG (FOURFELT) CEMETERY is about 3 kilometres to the north of the town, off the road to Hjerting, along the Gravlundvej.
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