In Memory Of

LEGGO, DOUGLAS CECIL

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 1919-07-12
Service No:
 80356
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
Unit:
 249 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1942-03-20
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Prot. Sec. (Officers'). Plot E. Coll. grave 18.
Cemetery:
 MALTA (CAPUCCINI) NAVAL CEMETERY
Country:
 Malta
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.