Leonard Gerrard SELLARS

SELLARS, Leonard Gerrard

Service Number: 409454
Enlisted: 15 August 1941
Last Rank: Pilot Officer
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: KANGAROO POINT, QLD, 12 September 1911
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental, United Kingdom, 22 July 1943, aged 31 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Pilot Officer, 409454
15 Aug 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 409454

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He was 31 and the son of Harry Roy Gerrard Sellars and Violet Gwendoline Sellars; husband of Mollie Victoria Sellars, of Brighton, Victoria, Australia. The inscription chosen for his war grave is:

WHO LOST HIS LIFE THROUGH HIS UNSHAKEN FIDELITY TO DUTY

Buried in the adjacent grave is Flight Sergeant Ernest Henry Benjamin Saker who was killed in the same incident.