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VC1241 Leonard Henry Trent
Name Leonard Henry Trent No.
VC Issue No. 1241 Awards VC DFC
Regiment Royal New Zealand Airforce attached to No. 487 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Squadron Leader
Rank End Of Career Group Captain
Place Of Birth Nelson, South Island, New Zealand
Place Of Death North Shore Hospital, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
Buried/Location Ashes North Shore Crematorium, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
Cremated North Shore Crematorium, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
Date Buried/Cremated 26 May 1986
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 1 March 1946
VC Presented 12 April 1946, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on VC RAF Memorial at St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London
Memorial at Returned Servicemen's Association HQ, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Trent VC Close, Methwold, Norfolk
Trent Street, Tradale, Napier, New Zealand
Trent Way, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
By The Way…
VC Held By
Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand
BORN 14 April 1915
DIED 19 May 1986 AGE 71
VC Won 3 May 1943 AGE 28
Place VC Won over Amsterdam, Holland
War/Campaign Second World War
