LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Arthur Frederick LEGGETT
Service No: 14536
Born: Drummoyne NSW, 21 January 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 April 1940
Unit: No. 2 Personnel Depot, Moore Park NSW
Died: Illness, Concord NSW, 10 February 1946, Aged 27 Years
Cremated: Rookwood Crematorium NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert and Gertrude Emma Leggett; husband of Doris Elsie Sophia Leggett, of Twickenham, Middlesex, England.
Roll of Honour: Drummoyne NSW
Remembered: Forces Memorial Wall, Rookwood NSW
Remembered: Panel 115, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Drummoyne War Memorial, Drummoyne NSW
On 10 February 1946, Flying Officer Leggett, an Air Gunner, died of an illness at No. 3 RAAF Hospital Concord.
Flying Officer Leggett had previously served with No. 10 Squadron RAAF in the UK in 1942.
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, 166/24/973
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line
Bibliography:
Ashworth, N. (Norman) The ANZAC Squadron: A history of No. 461 Squadron RAAF 1942-5, Hesperian Press Victoria Park WA 6100, 1994
Baff, K.C (Kevin), Maritime is Number Ten, K.C. Baff Netley SA, 1983
Joubert, P.B. (Sir Phillip Bennet) Birds and Fishes: the story of Coastal Command, Hutchinson and Company London, 1960
Southall, I.F. (Ivan Francis) (418900) They Shall Not Pass Unseen, Angus and Robertson Sydney NSW, 1956
Wilson, S. (Stewart) Anson, Hudson and Sunderland in Australian Service, Aerospace Publications Weston Creek ACT 2611, 1992