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Wing Commander Leslie Sydney Ford

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Military service

Service number: J/3712
Age: 23
Rank: Wing Commander
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 402 City of Winnipeg Squadron
Birth: December 30, 1919 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: June 21, 1940 Nova Scotia
Death: June 4, 1943

Burial/memorial information

VLIELAND GENERAL CEMETERY
Grave reference: Grave 63.
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Son of Dr. Theodore Rupert Ford and Margaret Irene Ford, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. B.A.

Wing Commander Ford was an ace, he was credited with destroying six enemy aircraft. He was killed when his Spitfire aircraft # AA980 was shot down in the sea off Holland.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 160 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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VLIELAND GENERAL CEMETERY Netherlands

Vlieland is one of the Frisian Islands lying off the north coast of Holland, and is connected with the mainland at Harlingen by ferry boat from its main village and port, Oostvlieland. The VLIELAND GENERAL CEMETERY is on the north-western outskirts of Oostvlieland, about 1 kilometre from the quay. Most of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth graves are in one prominently sited plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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