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Military service
Service number:
R/121343
Age:
23
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
429 Squadron
Birth:
July 4, 1920
High River, Alberta
Enlistment:
August 13, 1941
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
January 29, 1944
Guelitz, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
9. Z. 18.
Additional information
Son of Albert Edward and Agnes Shanks (nee Adam) Cornfield, of Trail, British Columbia. Brother of Robert, Phyllis and Margaret.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europer Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, the 19 November 1946.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II Edward Albert Cornfield
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Memorial
Warrant Officer Edward Albert Cornfield is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Edward Albert Cornfield 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 Edward Albert Cornfield
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.January 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Edward Albert Cornfield
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Edward Albert Cornfield
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Edward Albert Cornfield
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Edward Albert Cornfield
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Edward Albert Cornfield
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Edward Albert Cornfield
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 280 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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