LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Philip Allen LEACH
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 77944 (RAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 38 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Marham, Norfolk
Died: Injuries from Air Operations: (No. 38 Squadron Wellington aircraft P9287), 21 July 1940, Aged 38 Years
Buried: Marham (Holy Trinity) Churchyard, Norfolk
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Henry Ernest and Agnes Jessie Leach, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Remembered: Battle of Britain Memorial, Westminster Abbey, London UK
During a raid on Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Wellington P9287 was attacked by a night-fighter and Pilot Officer Leach, the Tail Gunner, was fatally wounded. The aircraft was able to return to Marham where he later died in hospital.
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Newton, Dennis First Impact, Banner Books, Maryborough QLD 4650, 1997