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Identity
Person No.
11175
Service No.
778264
Last Name
First Name
Leonard Thomas
Initials
L T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
31
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Aircraft Accident, in Harvard P5856
Military Service
Rank
Sergeant
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Notes

(Name may have been spelled Jearey). Born Muizenberg, Cape, in 1910, and entered Lloyd House in 1922. Before leaving in 1927 he was a lance-corporal in the Cadets; a member of the Rugby XV; represented the School boxing team from 1923 to 1927, winning in the latter year the inter-school light-heavy championship; in 1924 he won the School under 14 swimming championship. In 1931, he went to England and served in the Air Force there for three years with a short-service commission. He took a prominent part in boxing and represented the R.A.F. After serving with the R.A.F. in Egypt, he returned to Rhodesia and went mining. He joined the Air Force again soon after the outbreak of war. On Plumtree School Roll of Honour

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