Service Details
Name:
 NEL
Given Name:
 CHARLES PAUL
Initials:
 C P
Service No:
 206556V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 31 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-10-12
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Date of Death 2:
 1944-10-13
Date of Birth:
 1923-04-25
Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B.VI KG999, 8 crew (1 RAF and 5 RAFVR), took off from Celone, Italy, for Partisan supply drop in Northern Italy, north of Turin at night in poor weather. The weather conditions were very poor with 10/10 cloud cover and the aircraft crashed into the mountains above Ala di Stura. At the time of the crash there was no reported flak or air opposition
Additional
Information:
Son of Louis Leopold Leonard and Catherine Elizabeth Nel, of Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Oudtshoorn.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 MILAN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave V. C. 1-8.

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