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Son of Napoleon and Ethel Lefebvre, of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada; husband of Marguerite Lefebvre, of Cornwall, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
Gordon Lefebvre -barely over the age of 20 - who left his young wife Margaret and baby daughter Deanna to fight with the allied forces . He is one of the many young boys to never return home and never to be found
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre as commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
From the Toronto Star May 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
Gordon with the 77 Squadron crew of Whitley Z6822 on 8 November 1941, RAF Leeming
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture me
Image gallery
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Gordon Lefebvre -barely over the age of 20 - who left his young wife Margaret and baby daughter Deanna to fight with the allied forces . He is one of the many young boys to never return home and never to be found
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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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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Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre as commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Gordon Randolph Lefebvre is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From the Toronto Star May 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Gordon with the 77 Squadron crew of Whitley Z6822 on 8 November 1941, RAF Leeming
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From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture me
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From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 89 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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