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In memory of:

Wing Commander Wallace Angus Grayton McLeish

Military service

Service number: 19982
Age: 42
Rank: Wing Commander
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 440 All Weather (Fighter) Squadron
Birth: April 27, 1915 Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment: September 16, 1940 Hamilton, Ontario
Death: June 20, 1957 Montbronn, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Section 5 Row C Grave 3
Additional information

Son of Angus Gray and Mary (nee McTavish) McLeish of Hamilton, Ontario. Husband of Kathleen (nee Sclater) and father of John Alexander and Charles Campbell McLeish of Ancaster, Ontario.

Brother of Duncan and Flying Officer John Alexander MacTavish McLeish, who died on August 28, 1943, while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Additional citations

Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Force Cross, Canadian Forces Decoration, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, 1939-1945 Star, Operational Wings, Mention-in-Dispatches, Air Crew Europe Star, France and Germany Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Defence Medal

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 86 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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