The Airmen's Stories - Sgt. L E M Coote

Leonard Edward Morgan Coote, from Chiswick, joined the RAF in May 1940 as an Aircrafthand. He volunteered for aircrew duties and after a short radar course at Yatesbury he joined 600 Squadron at Manston on 18th July 1940 as a radar operator. Commissioned in October 1942 he was killed on 3rd October 1943 as a Flying Officer with 46 Squadron. At some time he underwent plastic surgery at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, qualifying as a ‘Guinea Pig’. He is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial and the Alamein Memorial.

Photographs courtesy of Colonel C R Romberg RA, British Embassy Cairo