Service Details
Name:
 LEGGO
Given Name:
 DOUGLAS CECIL
Initials:
 D C
Service No:
 80356
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 249 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1942-03-20
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Date of Birth:
 1919-07-12
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Spitfire VbT AB337, shot down by Bf109 at Hagar Qim near Qrendi when intercepting an enemy air raid on Malta. Baled out too low
Additional
Information:
Son of Albert Edward and Lillian Gertrude Leggo. Born Cape Town. Raised in Portuguese East Africa where his father was employed on the Beira Mashonaland Railway. As a boy, Douglas became enthralled with Malta when he read a book about the Great Siege. Little did he know that he would, one day, end up fighting during Malta's Second Siege. Leggo volunteered for the RAF and got his wings at Cranborne, Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
 Malta
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Cemetery:
 MALTA (CAPUCCINI) NAVAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Prot. Sec. (Officers'). Plot E. Coll. grave 18.

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