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Military service
Service number:
J/88418
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
175 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
December 14, 1921
Pembroke, Ontario
Enlistment:
April 24, 1941
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
June 15, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 15. Grave 212.
Additional information
Son of Gordon and Mabel A. Leitch, of Pembroke, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Cecil Desmond Leitch
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Photo of CECIL DESMOND LEITCH
Photo from Library and Archives, Canada, Ottawa. -
Photo of CECIL DESMOND LEITCH
Court of Inquiry Conclusions from Library and Archives, Canada, Ottawa. -
Photo of Cecil Desmond Leitch
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Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Cecil Desmond Leitch
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Cecil Desmond Leitch
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Cecil Desmond Leitch
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Cecil Desmond Leitch
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Cecil Desmond Leitch
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Cecil Desmond Leitch
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 364 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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