Identity
Person No.
1959
Service No.
208109V
Last Name
First Name
Leonhard Berthold
Initials
L B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,811
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #KH158, 8 crew (1 RAF, 1 RAAF and 1 RAFVR), disappeared without a trace while on a Partisan supply drop North of Genoa in poor weather, only aircraft of 6 not accounted for
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Warrant Officer Class I
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
SAAF Memorial, AFB Swartkop, Pretoria, South Africa
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
KH158
Notes
Son of Daniel Salomon and Lena Yudith Bloch, of Barkly East, Cape Province, South Africa. ***Jewish
Research notes
5 Sep 2026: Unit "31 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
16 Oct 2026: Confirmed by the Alpine 44 Commemoration crew-roll photo -- all core fields match. Minor Age/Rank variants in the photo not applied, SAWGP independently sides with this record's existing values (see each note below).
16 Oct 2026: AGE CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED. Alpine 44 Commemoration photo gives age 21; SAWGP (id 1959) independently confirms this record's existing age of 20. Photo's figure treated as the outlier.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Alpine 44 Club / Ad Astra Magazine (SAAF)
Alpine 44 Commemoration crew-roll photo and article, Ad Astra Magazine (Cpl Khensane Cheriz Nkuna), posted to Facebook; service held Air Force Memorial Swartkop, 11 Oct 2026
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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