Lieutenant George Leslie Werts served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. He was the son of Charles Jerome Werts and Gertrude Sarah Werts of Ipswich, Suffolk, and husband of Winifred Edith Werts (née Miles) of Ealing, Middlesex.
He died on 12th June 1943 aged 37 years old. At the time of his death, he served at HMS Daedalus, a shore base for the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm in Hampshire.
Werts was the Pilot of Queen’s University Air Squadron De Havilland Tiger Moth X5045. The plane took off from Sydenham Airfield, Belfast before stalling and coming down around 1545hrs on 12th June 1943 on the Stormont Estate, Belfast. Flying Officer Douglas Williams from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada also died as a result of the crash.
George Leslie Werts’ grave is in Glenalina Extension, Section D, Grave 24 of Belfast City Cemetery, Belfast. His headstone bears the inscription:
His name liveth for ever more.