Name:
Leslie George Griffith
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Serial Number:
R/261261
Unit:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death:
1944-11-01
State:
Michigan
Cemetery:
Rheinberg War Cemetery, Rheinberg, Kreis Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Plot:
11
Row:
E
Grave:
9
Decoration:
Comments:
Leslie George Griffith, of Farmington, Michigan, was born on April 16, 1920, in Ontario, Canada. He was the son of Thornton Clifford Griffith and Elsie Maud Clark and was the husband of Tillie Lillian Trost.
Leslie served in the #426 Thunderbird Squadron (On Wings Of Fire) of the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flight Sergeant during World War II. He was Killed in Action on November 1, 1944, when his Halifax Vll NP709, which took off at 17h44 from RAF Linton-on-Ouse, England, was shot down by flak.
Source of information: cwgc.org, www.rafcommands.com