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206083Sgt. Leonard Gordon Charles Dimond
Royal Air Force Air Gunner. 101 squadron
from:London
(d.30th Nov 1941)
My Uncle Len was a wireless operator and air gunner. He worked as a Hall Porter in a Hotel before the War. He joined up in August 1940 and went to Blackpool for training. His records state that he then went to Swinderby and Fettwell before joining 101 squadron in 1941. There is a record of his death along with others in the plane copied here from the internet:On 30 November 1941 at 20.00 hrs WEL R1778 crashed in the North Sea about here due to engine trouble on its way to bomb Hamburg. AOD has details. This is one of the stories about airmen rescued by fishermen in the North Sea.
Sergeant (Co-Pilot) Roy St. C. Finch and Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) John W. Lamont got into the dinghy which was found on 2 December 1941 at 10.00 hrs by the Danish fishing cutter E 264 'Harmoni' of Esbjerg. On the arrival at Esbjerg they were captured by the Germans. They got to know a number of German POW Camps.
Sergeant (Pilot) Derek A. Willisson, Sergeant (Observer) Donald E. Williams, Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Kenneth Naylor and Sergeant (Air Gunner) Leonard G. C. Dimond perished and disappeared in the sea. (Sources: AOD and Lost Bombers)
Sergeant Leonard Gordon Charles Dimond was from the United Kingdom. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 42, among more than 20,000 airmen, who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
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