The Airmen's Stories - P/O L F D King

Leonard Frank Douglas King of Windsor, Berkshire was born in 1918 in Edmonton, the son of Sidney Victor King and Elsie Elizabeth Sarah King (nee Greenfield).

He joined the RAF on a short service commission in June 1939. He completed his training at 11 FTS and joined 64 Squadron on 10th April 1940, serving with it throughout the Battle.

He married Kathleen Muriel Knight in June 1940 in Edmonton, Middlesex.

Above: King George visits 64 Squadron.

S/Ldr. NC Odbert at left.

L to R: F/lt. DB Hobson, P/O LFD King, unknown, F/Lt. AJA Laing, F/O HJ Woodward, F/Sgt. Flynn, Sgt. AE Binham.

His subsequent service is currently unknown until 1945, when he was serving as a Squadron Leader with 105 Squadron, operating in Mosquitos from Bourn in Cambridgeshire.

On 19th March he was airborne in Mosquito BXV1 MM170 GB-D on a sortie to Witten with F/Lt. DP Tough. The aircraft and crew was lost without trace.

King was 26 and is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial, panel 265.

Above image courtesy of Dean Sumner.