Angell, Leonard Arthur Charles
Personal Information
Rank | P/O |
Forename(s) | Leonard Arthur Charles |
Surname | Angell |
Gender | M |
Age | 23 |
Decorations | |
Date of Death | 22-06-1943 |
Next of Kin | Son of Leonard George and Florence Nellie Angell, of Enfield, Middlesex. Husband of Marjorie Joan Angell (Nee Kent), of Richmond, Surrey. |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Avro Lancaster III |
Serial Number | ED997 |
Markings | OL-R |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | Netherlands |
Burial/Memorial Place | Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen, Nijmegen |
Grave Reference | 7. I. 4. |
Epitaph | LOVED AND NEVER FORGOTTEN |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 123 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 148401 |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Group | 8 |
Squadron | 83 |
Trade | Navigator |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | RAF Wyton Memorial Garden, Wyton, Cambridgeshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Memorial Stone & Inscribed Metal Plaque |
Memorial Text | Commemorating the Pathfinder Sqns operating from RAF Wyton, 1942-1945 |
Location | RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Memorial Stone & Inscribed Metal Plaque |
Memorial Text | Commemorating 83 Sqn Lancaster, one of the Pathfinder Sqn's operating from RAF Wyton 1942 - 1945 |
Location | St. Michaels's Church, Coningsby, Lincolnshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Wooden Plaque & 83 Sqn Badge |
Memorial Text | This Chapel was furnished by members and friends of 83 Pathfinder Sqn and is dedicated to the memory of those airmen who lost their lives on flying operations from RAF Coningsby in WWII |
Miscellaneous Information
On his 35th operational sortie |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Record of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/687/12 |
Summary of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/687/11 |
Fellow Servicemen
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 21-06-1943 |
End Date | 22-06-1943 |
Takeoff Station | Wyton |
Day/Night Raid | Night (80% moon) |
Operation | Krefeld. 705 aircraft, 44 losses (6.2%) with night-fighters counting for most of the losses (the night was moonlit). PFF marking was near-perfect (using Oboe). A large fire in the centre of Krefeld raged unchecked for many hours. Over 5500 houses destroyed, 1056 people killed and 72000 bombed out of their homes. |
Reason for Loss | Shot down by a night-fighter (Hptm. Manfred Meurer, Kapitan of 3./NJG1 in a Bf110 from Venlo aerodrome, his 49th victory and his second of this night) and crashed at Haps, 2km west of Oeffelt, Holland at 01.23 hours |