Service Details
Name:
 BLOCH
Given Name:
 LEONHARD BERTHOLD
Initials:
 L B
Service No:
 208109V
Rank:
 Warrant Officer Class I
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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
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #KH158, 8 crew (1 RAF, 1 RAAF and 1 RAFVR), disappeared without a trace while on a Partisan supply drop North of Genoa in poor weather, only aircraft of 6 not accounted for
Additional
Information:
Son of Daniel Salomon and Lena Yudith Bloch, of Barkly East, Cape Province, South Africa. ***Jewish
Commemoration
Country:
 Malta
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Cemetery:
 MALTA MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 17, Column 2.

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