Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Parkhurst Military Cemetery : C D Leitch -

Location

In Parkhurst Military Cemetery, Forest Road, Parkhurst, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Standard CWGC headstone. WW II pattern.

Grave location : Plot 15. Grave 212. (CWGC) | Local plan : 129

Headstone


 

Inscription


 
Further Information

CWGC record ...
 
Index Board entry 129 : Plt Off C D Leitch, RCAF : 15.6.1944
 
Cecil Desmond Leitch, son of Gordon and Mabel A Leitch of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada.
 
P/O Leitch served with 175 Sqn Royal Air Force, based at RAF Holmesley South, equipped with Hawker Typhoon aircraft. His aircraft, Typhoon Mk.Ib MN481, developed engine problems over the Normandy coast, and Leitch was forced to bale out into the English Channel off the Isle of Wight, but he did not survive.
 
Information from John Bloodworth
 
Photographs of C D Leitch can be found on the Veteran Affairs Canada Canadian Virtual War Memorial

IOWFHS War Service Reports entry