In Memory Of

LEO, ARTHUR JOHN OWEN

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 1922-04-07
Service No:
 778694
Rank:
 Warrant Officer
Unit:
 35 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
Date of Death:
 1944-08-20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in air raid, when his working party was attacked from the air, in first bombing raid of IG Farben Monowitz-Auschwitz
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 1. C. 12.
Cemetery:
 KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
Country:
 Poland
Additional Information
Shot down as air gunner Handley Page Halifax Mk II W1226, Outward-bound, the aircraft was attacked by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Herbert Altner of the 5./NJG 3, who was flying Bf 110 D5+CN from Schleswig airfield in Germany. A fire started at the rear end of the fuselage and at 00:08 it crashed to the ground in a field belonging to ?Ladegarden? farm near Sonderborg, 19 August 1942. Survived the crash and was captured, interrogated and imprisoned (Stalag VIII-B). RAF Number: Enlistments in Rhodesia in June 1940