South Yorkshire Times July 30, 1949

After Five Years

Wombwell Parents get News of Airman Son

After a lapse of five years, Mr, and Mrs W. Peace, of Pearson’s field, Wombwell have received news or the fate of their Sergeant  L.L. Peace (27), R.A.F., who was lost in operation in Germany on the night of July 28th, 1944, In the same plane was the Gunner Irving Bowley, son of Mr and Mrs J Bowley, Prospect Terrace, Wombwell, who have received similar information.

Crashed Near Rhine

A letter from the Air Ministry dated July 12th, states that this aircraft crashed a Durmersheim, in the Rhine district of Rastatt, approximately 40 miles west of Stuttgart.

The casualties were originally buried in three cemeteries, at Durmersheim, Muggensturm and Oberweier, as also were members of other aircraft which crashed at the same time in the same area.

The letter states that the bodies have now been exhumed and re-interred at Bad Toelz British Military Cemetery, this being about 170 miles south-south-east from Rastatt, and the main burial place to which the remains of Air Force crews buried in isolated cemeteries throughout this part of Germany have been transferred.

The letter adds: “It is sincerely hoped the knowledge that your son is laid to rest with his colleagues, and that his grave will always be reverently tended, may afford you and your wife some measure of comfort in the grievous loss you have sustained.” Another letter gives the precise location and number of the grave and states that it has been registered with the Imperial War Graves Commission.

Formerly employed as a fitter at Wombwell Main Colliery, Flt./Sgt. Peace went to Canada for special technical instruction, and while there married Miss Mary Brown, of Brandon, Manitoba, who some years before had gone to Canada with her parents from Leicester. She is left with two children, the younger of whom was born six months after the death of her husband. She is now living in Canada.

From W.C.G.C.

SERGEANT LESLIE PEACE
Service Number: 524666
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force 106 Sqdn.

Date of Death: Died 29 July 1944
Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at
DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Coll. grave 11. H. 8-11. Germany

Additional Info
Son of George William and Florrie Peace; husband of Ethel Mary Peace, of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.