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Leading Aircraftman Leon Jack Caverley

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Military service

Service number: R/69180
Age: 24
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth: March 1, 1918 Whitney, Ontario
Enlistment: September 18, 1940 Ontario
Death: September 30, 1942 Sudbury, Ontario

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot 3. Lot 3 B.6. Sec. N.
Additional information

His real name was Leon John Caverley.


Son of Cecil Leo Caverley and Myrtle Rachel Burton, of Sudbury, Ontario.

Cecil enlisted on February 15, 1917 at the 78th Battery Depot of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Lethbridge, Alberta, service number 1251179, and was discharged on April 27, 1918 in Calgary, Alberta, without having participated in the First World War.


Leon served as a soldier in the Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury Regiment (MG), Company C – NPAM – for 18 months at Camp Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, from 1939.


He only served in Canada for 699 days.

GARSON ANGLICAN CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

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