Service Details
Name:
 McLEOD
Given Name:
 KENNETH JAMES
Initials:
 K J
Service No:
 47943V
Trade:
 Obs.
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 34 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-10-16
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Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW250, 8 crew (4 RAFVR), shot down by Luftwaffe night fighter while en route to drop supplies to Polish Home Army Partisans in Warsaw, Poland
Additional
Information:
Son of George and Johanna McLeod, of Kestell, Orange Free State. Born Kestell. Educated at Beaufort West and Kestell High Schools. A bank clerk with Standard Bank.
Commemoration
Country:
 Poland
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Cemetery:
 KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 1. B. 8.

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