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Military service
Service number:
J/94370
Age:
27
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
14 (R.A.F.) Squadron
Death:
May 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 282.
Additional information
Son of George and Jennie Lawson. Husband of Annie Mildred Lawson, of Toronto, Ontario.
Cousin of Sergeant Percy Roy Lawson, 4th Mounted Canadian Rifles, 2nd Central Ontario Regiment, died in battle on 9 April 1917.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
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Photo of Orval Lawson
Lawson, Orval Percy - Pilot Officer. Born 14th May, 1917, at Artland, Sask. Educated at Exeter, One. Entered the service of the Bank 6th June, 1935. Served at Hamilton and other branches in Ontario. Enlisted 30th January, 1942, from Orillia in R.C.A.F. Sergeant in January, 1944; Pilot Officer 6th May, 1944. Trained at Toronto, Jarvis, Ont., and Chatham, N.B. Overseas in June, 1943. Attached to Coastal Command in North Africa in January, 1944. Missing after air operations on 7th May, 1944. Officially presumed dead April, 1945.<br><i>From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.</i> -
Cenotaph
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson is also commemorated on the cenotaph in Exeter, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cenotaph
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson is also commemorated on the cenotaph in Exeter, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson is also commemorated on the WWII Memorial in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson is also commemorated on the WWII Memorial in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Orval Percy Lawson
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Correspondence
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
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Correspondence
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering cousins lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Orval Percy Lawson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 361 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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