Service Details
Name:
 JEREY
Given Name:
 LEONARD THOMAS
Initials:
 L T
Service No:
 778264
Trade:
 Pilot U/T
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 20 Service Flying Training School
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Date of Death:
 1941-02-17
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Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Harvard P5856
Additional
Information:
(Name may have been spelled Jearey). Born Muizenberg, Cape, in 1910, and entered Lloyd House in 1922. Before leaving in 1927 he was a lance-corporal in the Cadets; a member of the Rugby XV; represented the School boxing team from 1923 to 1927, winning in the latter year the inter-school light-heavy championship; in 1924 he won the School under 14 swimming championship. In 1931, he went to England and served in the Air Force there for three years with a short-service commission. He took a prominent part in boxing and represented the R.A.F. After serving with the R.A.F. in Egypt, he returned to Rhodesia and went mining. He joined the Air Force again soon after the outbreak of war. On Plumtree School Roll of Honour
Commemoration
Country:
 Zimbabwe
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Locality:
 Harare (Salisbury)
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Cemetery:
 HARARE (PIONEER) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Eur. War Graves Plot. Grave 21.

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