Leslie Harold (Les) CHAPMAN

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CHAPMAN, Leslie Harold

Service Number:	410641
Enlisted:	31 January 1942
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Stawell, Victoria, Australia, 20 July 1923
Home Town:	Stawell, Northern Grampians, Victoria
Schooling:	Stawell High School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Bank Clerk (State Savings Bank)
Died:	Flying Battle, Denmark, 10 April 1944, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Esbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery Brande, Denmark Plot A. Row 7 Grave 10
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Stawell Other Wars Memorial

World War 2 Service

31 Jan 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 410641

World War 1 Service

31 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 410641, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Melbourne, Vic.

World War 2 Service

31 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 410641
31 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 410641, 1 Recruit Depot Shepparton (RAAF)
20 Apr 1942:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), No. 1 Initial Training School Somers
25 Apr 1942:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman
15 Oct 1942:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 2 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 3 Air Observers School Port Pirie
12 Nov 1942:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant
22 Nov 1942:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, No. 1 Engineering School Ascot Vale
6 Jan 1943:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 410641, Royal Air Force - unspecified units, Embarked from Melbourne for England.
7 Mar 1943:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 11 Personnel Depot and Receiving Centre, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
30 Mar 1943:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, Royal Air Force - unspecified units, Bomber Command Training Units.
12 May 1943:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant
30 Jul 1943:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, RAF Conversion Units , RAF Heavy Bomber Conversion.
16 Sep 1943:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Aircraft Wireless Operator.
16 Sep 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 410641, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45, Commenced Bomber Command Ops.
10 Apr 1944:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 410641, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), K.I.A.
Date unknown:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 410641, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Harold Henry and May Chapman, of Stawell, Victoria, Australia

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Lancaster ME663 of 460 Squadron RAAF based at RAF Binbrook was shot down by a German night-fighter / anti-aircraft fire after a mission to lay mines in the Baltic and crashed near the town of Aale in Denmark

Flight Sergeant Frederick Stanley Hodge DFM 426100 was taken Prisoner and survived the war

Flying Officer Charles Edward Suffren DFC 409280 survived but with severe injuries; he passed away in a Luftwaffe Military hospital in Germany 10 months after the crash and is buried in Durnbach Cemetery in Germany (he is referred to in Volume 9 of “Bomber Command Losses” by Chorley)

The 5 crewmen that were killed in the crash are buried in Esbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery in Denmark

CHAPMAN, Leslie Harold (Flight Sergeant) 410641

CROSBY, Peter Alan (Flight Lieutenant) DFC 416656

BILLETT, Clive (Flight Sergeant) 414191

ROBB, Laurence William (Flying Officer) 418879

BENDER, Milton Harold (Pilot Officer) DFC 173405 RAF

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