Service Details
Name:
 SHEAR
Given Name:
 LEO
Initials:
 L
Service No:
 205858
Rank:
 Warrant Officer Class II
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 44 Air School
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Date of Death:
 1943-05-04
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Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Airspeed AS.10 Oxford Mk I/II #3869, 3 crew (2 RAF), skin came off wings in high speed turn and aircraft broke up, crashed at Riebeek East
Additional
Information:
Son of Mrs. R. B. Shear, of Harrismith. On Harrismith War Memorial, Free State. ***Jewish
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Free State
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Cemetery:
 HARRISMITH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Hebrew Sec. Grave 93.

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