LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Leonard BUSWELL
Service No: 427677
Born: Bunbury WA, 6 January 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 September 1942
Unit: No. 11 Personnel Disposal and Reception Centre, RAAF Overseas Headquarters
Died: Illness, Birmingham, 26 November 1943, Aged 19 years
Buried: Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, UK
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Albert Joseph and Margaret Mary Buswell, of Bunbury, Western Australia.
Roll of Honour: Bunbury WA
Remembered: Panel 119, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Cenotaph Undercroft, State War Memorial, Kings Park WA
On the 26th November 1943, Sergeant Buswell, a Pilot, died of pneumonia in the 16th Canadian General Hospital, Marston Green, Birmingham.
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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/6/337