Pickard, David Leslie (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1943-November-26

Flying Officer David Leslie Pickard RCAF

Birth Date: 1917-February-04

Born: Tugaske, Saskatchewan

Parents: John & Melissa J. Pickard, of Hamilton, Ontario.

Spouse:

Home: Hamilton, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: 1940-January-01

Service

RCAF

Unit

57 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Corpus Non Animum Muto I change my body, not my spirit

Base

RAF East Kirby

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Wireless Air Gunner

Service Numbers

J/15641

Home
Google MapHamilton, Ontario
Target
Google MapBerlin Germany
Final Burial
Google MapSage War Cemetery
1 D 5

Took off from East Kirby at 17:25 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code DX-L Bomber Command) on an operation to Berlin Germany.

Out-bound shot down by a night fighter and crashed near Bookholzberg-Neuenlande some 8 km NW of Delmenhorst Lower Saxony Germany.

Killed includes Pickard: Pilot Officer Harold Beane RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery Germany grave 1. D. 1. Sergeant Walter Dwyer RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery Collective grave 1. D. 2-4. Sergeant James MacKay RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. D. 2-4. Sergeant Lawrence Arthur Williamson RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. D. 2-4.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)