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Pilot Officer WILLIAM HEWISON LEESE

Service Number: J/92069
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Air Force

10 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Date of Death

Died 18 December 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY

VIII. B. 10.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Vernon Leese and Mary Adeline Leese, of Powell River, British Columbia, Canada. His brother Robert Gibson Leese also fell.
  • Personal Inscription THEY ARE NOT DEAD, NOR SLEEP; THEY HAVE AWAKENED FROM THE DREAM OF LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Belgium) Belgium
Number of casualties: 800
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