Cowan, Leo Martin (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1942-August-29

Flight Sergeant Leo Martin Cowan RCAF

Birth Date: 1913-February-25

Born: Biggar Saskatchewan

Parents: John F. Cowan & Centrilla I. Cowan

Spouse:

Home: Biggar, Saskatchewan (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

61 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Purum Tonantes Thundering through the clear air

Base

RAF Syerston

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Wireless Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/86910

Home

Biggar, Saskatchewan (parents)

Target

Nuremberg Germany

Temporary Burial

Obermichelback, Germany

Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied

Final Burial

Durnbach War Cemetery
Plot 11 Row G Coll Grave 14-17

Took off from Syerston at 21:05 in Lancaster Mk I Sqn code QR-? Bomber Command) on an operation to Nuremberg Germany.

Aircraft failed to return, lost to unknown cause(s).

Killed includes Cowan: Flight Sergeant Franciszek Janiszewski RCAF R/77307 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. G. 14-17. Pilot Officer William Shearer Pattinson RCAF J/8343 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. G. 14-17. Pilot Officer James Allister Wright RCAF J/9698 KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. G. 14-17. Sergeant Kenneth Norgate RAF pilot KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. G. 14-17. Flight Sergeant John Edward Richards RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. G. 14-17. Sergeant Wilfred Toole RAF KIA Durnbach War Cemetery Coll. grave 11. G. 14-17.

Cenotaph at Biggar Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Biggar, Battleford Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial