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Leonard Stanley Carpenter (1919 - 1943)

WO1 Leonard Stanley Carpenter
Born in Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canadamap
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Died at age 23 in Europemap
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Biography

Stanley was born at Moncton, New Brunswick
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Leonard Carpenter was born in New Brunswick, Canada.
on July 26, 1919 to Urban Carpenter & Bessie Crawford .[1]

He enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force on October 10, 1940. He served 857 days including 574 days overseas in the United Kingdom and Egypt. He was killed in action on February 13, 1943 in Charlecote, UK.[2]

Urban was awarded the Defense Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. He held the rank of Warrant Officer First Class.[2]

In 1943, he was attached to the 22nd Overseas Training Unit, a unit formed in April 1941 at RAF Wellesbourne Mountford to train night bomber crews on Vickers Wellington bomber aircraft.[3] On Feb 13 of that year, he was piloting a Wellington III with 8 other military personnel onboard when it was lost in a crash. All were interred at Stratford-Upon-Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.[4][2]
Pilot Officer Leonard Carpenter served in the Royal Air Force in World War II
Service started: 05 Nov 1941
Unit(s): 22 OTU RAF
Service ended: KIA 13 Feb 1943
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WO1 Leonard Carpenter was Killed in Action during World War II.

Full Crew List of RAF HF759:

  • Pilot Officer Spencer Hewitt Amys, Navigator
  • Sergant Russell Charles Heath Boulton, Navigator
  • Sergant John Gilbert Campbell, Navigator
  • Warrant Officer Class I Leonard Stanley Carpenter, Pilot
  • Flight Sergeant Laurence Michael Fleming, Wireless Operator
  • Pilot Officer Michael Stein Jacobs, Navigator
  • Sergeant Roy Kennedy, Air Gunner
  • Warrant Officer Class II George Andrew Molozzi, Air Observe
  • Sergeant Arthur Nathaniel Edward, Pilot

Sources

  1. ↑ New Brunswick Birth Registrations. https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/VISSE/141A1b.aspx?culture=en-CA&guid=a994154c-da4d-471e-b5ab-0216af8d9f6c Accessed 01 July 2021.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Leonard Stanley Carpenter, Canadian Virtual War Memorial. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  3. ↑ List of Royal Air Force Operational Training Units, Wikipedia
  4. ↑ Aircraft Loss Entry Database, RAFCommands.com

See Also:

  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98180926/leonard-stanley-carpenter : accessed 22 September 2021), memorial page for Warrant Officer Class I Leonard Stanley Carpenter (26 Jul 1919–13 Feb 1943), Find A Grave: Memorial #98180926, citing Stratford Upon Avon Cemetery, Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, England ; Maintained by Operation:PictureMe (contributor 47833248) .




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Carpenter-22140 and Carpenter-20751 appear to represent the same person because: Inadvertently created second copy due to inverted first/middle name.
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Categories: Royal Canadian Air Force, World War II | War Medal 1939-1945 | 1939-1945 Star | Stratford upon Avon Cemetery, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire | Moncton, New Brunswick | No 22 Operational Training Unit, Royal Air Force, World War II | Killed in Action, Canada, World War II