Military service
Burial/memorial information
He was a drummer in the Queen's York Ranger Army Cadet Corps in Toronto, Ontario, from 1931 to 1933, a soldier in the 48th Highlanders of Canada – NPAM – from 1933 to 1935 and a gunner in the Royal Canadian Field Artillery – NPAM – from 1935 to 1936.
He served in Canada and Great Britain. He had 535 days of service, including 135 overseas.
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal
Digital gallery of Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of GORDON LINDSAY CHAPMAN
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Photo of GORDON LINDSAY CHAPMAN
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 26 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
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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