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ISOB Leroy 'Sully' Sullivan - Royal Canadian Air Force

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Details:

Grave: 47. E. 9. Isolated Burial


A standard Commonwealth Grave Commission (CWGC) inscribed gravestone.

Flying Officer Leroy Means 'Sully' Sullivan flew with the Royal Canadian Air Force, 506 Fighter Squadron, and  was killed in an accident flying his Hawker Typhoon aircraft on November 7, 1943 at Martlesham Heath Air Base.

His best friend from childhood, LT John "Lucky" Luckadoo, a pilot with the 351st Bomber Squadron, 100th Bomber Group, attended his funeral ceremony in November 1943.

Monument Text:

FLYING OFFICER
L.M. SULLIVAN
PILOT
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE

7 November 1943

BELOVED ONLY SON OF L.M. AND N.H.SULLIVAN 
BORN 20TH DECEMBER 1921 CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE

Commemorates:

People:

Leroy Means 'Sully' Sullivan

Units:

100th Bomber Group

Royal Canadian Air Force

Wars:

WWII