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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 Ontario
Death: June 20, 1957 Montbrunn, 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.

CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Choloy is a village and commune in the Department of the Meurthe-et-Moselle, 28 kilometres west of Nancy and some 5 kilometres west of Toul, a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy. The village is south of the River Moselle on the minor road (D11B) from Toul to the neighbouring village of Foug. The CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY is 3 kilometres west of Toul on the north side of the D11B road.

The Choloy War Cemetery is the last resting place of casualties from the First and Second World Wars and is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is also the final resting place for many Royal Canadian Air Force members and their families who died while serving in Europe as part of 1 Air Division between 1953 and 1967 and other Service Members serving with NATO in Germany following Canada's departure from France.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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