Lennard Fordham

Pilot Officer Lennard Basil ('Baz') Fordham was a Canadian airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in Sasketchewan, the son of English-born parents Lennard Pierre and Demaris Fordham, who had emigrated to Canada in 1905."Canada Census, 1916," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMPR-DPZ : accessed 15 September 2015), Lennard Pierre Fordham, Saskatchewan, Canada; citing p. 18, line 42; Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,434,957. Fordham entered the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1935, and acted as a constable in "F" and "K" Divisions. In 1939, he purchased his discharge and paid his way to Britain to volunteer for the Royal Air Force.Hulgaard, William Joseph & White, John Wesley (2002), Honoured in Places: Remembered Mounties Across Canada, p. 66. 
Commissioned on 6 October 1940,The London Gazette (35019), p. 7128. 20 December 1940, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2015. Fordham joined the Supermarine Spitfire-equipped 72 Squadron. Aged 27, Fordham died on 17 July 1941, when his Spitfire (serial P8544) crashed into the English Channel after being hit by flak while on a fighter sweep over France. He was able to transmit a distress signal, but the responding air-sea-rescue unit found him drowned.Docherty, Tom (2009), Swift to Battle: No. 72 Squadron RAF in Action, Volume 1, p. 150.
He is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Fordham Lake, adjacent to Nokomis Lake, is named in his commemoration.
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*Fordham, Lennard Basil, cwgc.org. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1941 deaths
Category:Canadian military personnel
Category:Canadian people of British descent
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:Buried in England
Category:Pilot Officers