Leonard Sieve

Flight Sergeant Leonard Sieve was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1917, in Salford, the son of Myer and Lydia Sieve (née Sunlight), of Ireland and Russia, respectively.
Sieve, serving as a wireless operator and air gunner in 207 Squadron, died on 14 January 1942, when his Avro Manchester (serial L7523) crashed at 2045 hours, at Cliff House, East Yorkshire. The Manchester had taken off at 1735 on an operation against Hamburg.Chorley, W.R. (1992), Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Aircraft and crew losses: 1942, p. 19. He had married, in 1939, to Joan Margaret Chambers. His wife and their only child, Clement, died on 16 July 1942, on board HMHS Gloucester Castle, sunk by German commerce raider Michel.Sieve, Clement, cwgc.org. Retrieved 23 January 2013.   
He is buried in Failsworth Jewish Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk
*Sieve, Leonard, cwgc.org. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
Category:1917 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Buried in England
Category:Flight Sergeants