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Digital gallery of Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Joseph Ash is honoured on page 6 of the memorial book,<br>
CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties,<br>
compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948. <br>
This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume. For additional information about these archival records, please contact:<p>
The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives <br>
1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada)<br>
telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 <br>
facsimile: 514-931-0548 <br>
website: www.cjc.ca
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
2669 F/O Joseph Ash (RMC 1938) was educated at the Osgood Public School, Lisgar Collegiate, Ottawa Technical School and the Royal Military College. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, #5 Operational Training Unit. He was reported missing after air operations over the North Sea on Nov 2, 1942. He was presumed dead on Oct 9, 1943. His name is listed on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. His name is listed on page 6 of the memorial book Canadian Jews in World War II.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
2669 F/O Joseph Ash (RMC 1938) was educated at the Osgood Public School, Lisgar Collegiate, Ottawa Technical School and the Royal Military College. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, #5 Operational Training Unit. He was reported missing after air operations over the North Sea on Nov 2, 1942. He was presumed dead on Oct 9, 1943. His name is listed on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. His name is listed on page 6 of the memorial book Canadian Jews in World War II.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
2669 F/O Joseph Ash (RMC 1938) was educated at the Osgood Public School, Lisgar Collegiate, Ottawa Technical School and the Royal Military College. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, #5 Operational Training Unit. He was reported missing after air operations over the North Sea on Nov 2, 1942. He was presumed dead on Oct 9, 1943. His name is listed on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. His name is listed on page 6 of the memorial book Canadian Jews in World War II.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
2432 F/L John Okeden Alexander (RMC 1934) served with the Royal Air Force. He died on Oct 21, 1941. He was buried in the Helensburgh Cemetery in Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom 7. Grave 3. Sec. R. Walk.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
A beautiful monument was installed in 2015 at the Jewish Community Cemetery on Bank Street, honouring those brave men of the Ottawa Jewish Community who fought and lost their lives in war. The three panel granite monument lists Ottawa community members who served and fell in the Great War, World War II, Israeli War of Independence and while on active duty with the Israeli Army.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Ash
Joseph Ash
1920 - 1942
Pilot Officer Joseph Ash was born in Ottawa in 1920 to Mr. And Mrs. Abraham Ash.
He was the first Ottawa Jewish person to attend the Royal Military College, Kingston. Joseph Ash resigned his commission in the army and enlisted in the air force where he expected more action. He trained at St. Hubert, Quebec, Chatham, New Brunswick, Summerside, Prince Edward Island and graduated from the Initial Training School in April, 1942. Flying Officer Ash went overseas in May, 1942 and was attached to an R.A.F. Training Flight.
Ash was reported missing over the North Sea on November 2, 1942.
#LestWeForget
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Joseph Ash is honoured on page 6 of the memorial book,<br> CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties,<br> compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948. <br> This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume. For additional information about these archival records, please contact:<p> The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives <br> 1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada)<br> telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 <br> facsimile: 514-931-0548 <br> website: www.cjc.ca
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2669 F/O Joseph Ash (RMC 1938) was educated at the Osgood Public School, Lisgar Collegiate, Ottawa Technical School and the Royal Military College. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, #5 Operational Training Unit. He was reported missing after air operations over the North Sea on Nov 2, 1942. He was presumed dead on Oct 9, 1943. His name is listed on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. His name is listed on page 6 of the memorial book Canadian Jews in World War II.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2669 F/O Joseph Ash (RMC 1938) was educated at the Osgood Public School, Lisgar Collegiate, Ottawa Technical School and the Royal Military College. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, #5 Operational Training Unit. He was reported missing after air operations over the North Sea on Nov 2, 1942. He was presumed dead on Oct 9, 1943. His name is listed on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. His name is listed on page 6 of the memorial book Canadian Jews in World War II.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2669 F/O Joseph Ash (RMC 1938) was educated at the Osgood Public School, Lisgar Collegiate, Ottawa Technical School and the Royal Military College. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, #5 Operational Training Unit. He was reported missing after air operations over the North Sea on Nov 2, 1942. He was presumed dead on Oct 9, 1943. His name is listed on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. His name is listed on page 6 of the memorial book Canadian Jews in World War II.
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2432 F/L John Okeden Alexander (RMC 1934) served with the Royal Air Force. He died on Oct 21, 1941. He was buried in the Helensburgh Cemetery in Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom 7. Grave 3. Sec. R. Walk.
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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A beautiful monument was installed in 2015 at the Jewish Community Cemetery on Bank Street, honouring those brave men of the Ottawa Jewish Community who fought and lost their lives in war. The three panel granite monument lists Ottawa community members who served and fell in the Great War, World War II, Israeli War of Independence and while on active duty with the Israeli Army.
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Joseph Ash 1920 - 1942 Pilot Officer Joseph Ash was born in Ottawa in 1920 to Mr. And Mrs. Abraham Ash. He was the first Ottawa Jewish person to attend the Royal Military College, Kingston. Joseph Ash resigned his commission in the army and enlisted in the air force where he expected more action. He trained at St. Hubert, Quebec, Chatham, New Brunswick, Summerside, Prince Edward Island and graduated from the Initial Training School in April, 1942. Flying Officer Ash went overseas in May, 1942 and was attached to an R.A.F. Training Flight. Ash was reported missing over the North Sea on November 2, 1942. #LestWeForget
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Page 55 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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