Air Chief Marshal Sir TRAFFORD LEIGH LEIGH-MALLORY
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force
Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia
Date of Death
Died 14 November 1944
Age 52 years old
Buried or commemorated at
ALLEMONT (LE RIVIER) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Centre Plot. Row 1. Grave 2.
France
- Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Knight Commander of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order, Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Chief Commander Legion of Merit (U.S.A.), Order of Kutuzov 1st Class (U.S.S.R). Son of the Revd. Canon Herbert Leigh Leigh-Mallory, M.A., and Annie Berridge Leigh-Mallory; husband of Lady LEIGH-MALLORY, (nee Sawyer), who died with him. Mentioned in Despatches in the 1914-18 war. LL.B. History Tripos (Magdalene College, Cambridge).
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