Leslie Gilkes

Sergeant Leslie Francis Gilkes was a Trinidadian airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born the son of Joseph and Octavia Gilkes, of Siparia.
Gilkes, of 9 Squadron, died on 3 August 1943, when his Lancaster (serial ED493) was shot down by a German Bf 110 night-fighter while engaged on an operation against Hamburg, killing the crew of seven.Chorley, W.R. (1992), Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Aircraft and Crew Losses: 1943, p. 254.
Three of the crew, including Gilkes, have no known grave and are commemorated by the Runnymede Memorial.
==Notes==
==References==
*Gilkes, Leslie Francis, cwgc.org. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
==External links==
*Leslie Francis Gilkes (additional details & photograph), caribbeanaircrew-ww2.com. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1943 deaths
Category:Trinidadian military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Runnymede Memorial
Category:Sergeants