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Squadron Leader Leslie Mersham, North Weald Bassett

SQUADRON LEADER

L. T. MERSHAM

ROYAL AIR FORCE

30TH JULY 1957 - AGE 35

 

CALLED TO HIGHER SERVICE

DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS WIFE,

CHILDREN AND FAMILY

 

Squadron Leader Leslie Mersham died in Hawker Hunter XF510 on approach at RAF North Weald when the engine cut. He was the Officer commanding RAF North Weald at the time and he was the last RAF pilot to be killed at the airfield which closed 7 years later.

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