Born 27 July, 1918 in Ridgetown, ON. The son of Alfred Samuel Blight and Alice Marion (nee Paterson) Blight of Jarvis, Ontario, Canada. Leslie had an older brother an three much older half-siblings.

Leslie attended the University of Toronto and obtained a degree in pharmacy, and then worked as a chemist.

At the time of his enlistment with the RCAF (2 July, 1940), he was living in Jarvis, ON. After undertaking his basic training in Canada, he left for the UK. He received a commission to the rank of P/O on 11/02/1941, rising to ‘Acting F/O on 14/04/1942. F/O (temp) on 11/02/1942 and to F/Lt. (temp) on 11/02/43.  Frank Dutil.

Age:  25, KIA-Date of Death : 30/05/1943, Died in the crash of a Wellington bomber # HE 553. Crashed near Cotterick at Reeth, Yorkshire, England, along with P/O F. T. Dingwall. Also killed with flt. Lieut Blight was P/O(P) Fred Thompson Dingwall, and both are buried in Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire, England.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead, Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. H. Grave 398.

Cemetery: RIPON CEMETERY. Flight Lieutenant Leslie Edwin Blight is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Sources	“They Shall Grow Not Old”, F. Dutil (RCAF), CVWM (Pilot photo and Grave marker)., F. Dutil (RCAF),, CVWM
Supplemental Information	Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead, Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. H. Grave 398. Cemetery: RIPON CEMETERY. “They Shall Not Grow Old”.

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