LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Leonard Frederick SMYTHE
Service No: 432049
Born: Yass NSW, 19 December 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 24 November 1942
Unit: No. 13 Service Flying Training School (RCAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 13 Service Flying Training School Harvard aircraft AJ646), Quebec, 31 October 1943, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Montreal (Notre Dane Des Neiges) Cemetery, Quebec
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James Frederick and Catherine Josephine Smythe, of Concord, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Liverpool NSW
Remembered: Panel 133, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Concord War Memorial, Concord NSW
At 1730 hours on 31 October 1943, Leading Aircraftman Smythe, a trainee Pilot flying solo, was killed when Harvard AJ646 crashed.
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, 166/38/323
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line