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Information received from Peter L Norman
(whose father's elder brother was Leonard Charles Norman):
The official casualty lists give his death
as 30th May 1918 having joined 49Sqn on the 25th of the same
month. However, later in the squadron records another DH-9 is
reported to have been lost on the 30th October 1918 with Pilot
2nd Lt Cotterrell and Observer L C Norman aboard.
This later date would be consistent with a family tradition that
my Uncle was killed just before the Armistice.
49 Association Note: Our information shows that, in this loss,
Sgt Gumbley was the observer)
Unfortunately I have no photograph of Leonard but the photograph
(shown below) of the football team has a player (second from
the left back row) who has the characteristics of my paternal
grandmother's family to a marked degree.
If the picture was taken in 1919 then the theory goes out of
the window!
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