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Captain Leslie John Harry Cox

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Military service

Service number: H63 244 767
Age: 31
Rank: Captain
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: 409 All-Weather Fighter Squadron
Birth: October 21, 1944 London, United Kingdom
Enlistment: August 24, 1964 Ontario
Death: July 5, 1976 Comox, British Columbia

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Section 27, Range E, Grave 81
Additional information
Son of Leslie and Rose Elizabeth Cox of Ottawa, Ontario. Husband of Marie Bernadette Louise (nee Lacroix) Cox and father of Donald and Vanessa Cox of Comox, British Columbia.

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY contains 98 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 113 from the Second World War. Many of the graves are in the two veterans plots, where there is also a Cross of Sacrifice dedicated to all service casualties buried in the cemetery.

The OTTAWA CREMATION MEMORIAL is in a shelter adjoining the newer of the veterans plots in the cemetery and commemorates 26 Second World War servicemen whose remains were cremated elsewhere in Canada and the U.S.A.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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