{"id":541,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=541"},"modified":"2023-08-24T07:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T07:50:44","slug":"leigh-ronald","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/leigh-ronald\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh, Ronald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Ronald Leigh<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Flight Engineer, 1651 HCU<br>Service number 1804526<br>Died 3 March 1945<br>Buried Willesden Jewish Cemetery, United Kingdom <br>Age 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Ronald was born in 1924 in Holborn to John (Jacob) and Russian born Sarah Smith and had an older brother Peter and a younger sister Esther. The family name was changed from Levy to Leigh. In 1939, the family were living in Chepping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire where Ronald&#8217;s father John was a managing director of a furrier company. Ronald worked as an articled clerk and is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in the Members&#8217; Room at Chartered Accountants Hall in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronald&#8217;s brother Peter served under the surname of Levy as a Lance Corporal in the Royal Armoured Corps and was killed in 1943. He is commemorated at Medjez-El-Bab Memorial in Beja, Tunisia. He is also commemorated on Ronald&#8217;s headstone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronald was the flight engineer on Lancaster ME781 which departed RAF Woolfox Lodge along with sixty nine other aircraft on a night diversionary raid over Germany and mine laying off the Norwegian coast. The aircraft on its return journey to RAF Woolfox Lodge was flying on only three engines. It approached too slowly and lost height as a result. Sensing the problem, the crew applied power but then lost control and crashed near the airfield killing all the crew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pilot, Donald Forbes Law, 150650<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\/B, Walter John Trice, 164331<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>W\/Op, Harold Vaudrey, 1132434<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\/G, Sidney James Webb, 2235330<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nav, Peter Newman Young, 164438<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LEIGH-Ronald-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1016\" width=\"403\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LEIGH-Ronald-1.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LEIGH-Ronald-1-120x136.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Leigh-and-brother-headstone-700x933.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Leigh-and-brother-headstone-700x933.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Leigh-and-brother-headstone-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Leigh-and-brother-headstone-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Leigh-and-brother-headstone-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Leigh-and-brother-headstone-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Leigh-and-brother-headstone-120x160.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Leigh-and-brother-headstone-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronald Leigh Flight Engineer, 1651 HCUService number 1804526Died 3 March 1945Buried Willesden Jewish Cemetery, United Kingdom Age 21 Ronald was born in 1924 in Holborn to John (Jacob) and Russian born Sarah Smith and had an older brother Peter and a younger sister Esther. 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