LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Leslie Tate LOTON
Service No: 412158
Born: Arncliffe NSW, 8 October 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 June 1941
Unit: No. 3 Service Flying Training School (RCAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 3 Service Flying Training School Crane aircraft 8169), Alberta, 3 March 1942, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Calgary (Burnsland) Cemetery, Alberta
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Alfred Ernest and Janet Loton; husband of Mabel Winifred Loton, of St. Peters, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 133, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Brother of Flying Officer Eric Rex Loton (424425)
On 3 March 1942, Leading Aircraftman Loton, a Trainee Pilot was the safety pilot in an aircraft flown by Leading Aircraftman John Lionel Clarke (R/106996), also a Trainee Pilot, engaged in instrument flying. At approximately 1530 hours the aircraft crashed in a vertical dive ten miles north of Cochrane, Alberta and both crew members were killed.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/139/113