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Military service
Service number:
J/24299
Age:
21
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
427 Sqdn.
Death:
July 29, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 5A. A. 9-11.
Additional information
Son of Van G. Gordon, and of Dorothy P. Gordon, of Toronto, Ontario.
Brother of Flight Serjeant David William Gordon, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Huntly Parker Gordon
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Newspaper Clipping
The Toronto Star, July 27, 1945, page 2 F/O Gordon, age 21, served in 427 Squadron on Halifax aircraft MZ 757. The crew was airborne 2225 on 28 July 1944 from Leeming on a night operation to Hamburg, Germany. Their aircraft was damaged by Flak and shot down by a German night-fighter crashing 0117 onto the Howaldtwerf at Hamburg. On this attack, RCAF Bomber Command 6 Group suffered their highest losses. 22 crews failed to return. The Gordon family had already suffered the lost of their son, F/Sgt (P) David William Gordon, age 21, who was killed on a Beaufort aircraft with two RAF members when it crashed on the aerodrome at Takoradi, Ghana, Africa on December 8, 1942. -
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 -
Grave marker
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Huntly Parker Gordon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Huntly Parker Gordon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Huntly Parker Gordon
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Huntly Parker Gordon
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Service book
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Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Attestation paper
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Document
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Huntly Parker Gordon
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Huntly Parker Gordon
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Huntly Parker Gordon
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Huntly Parker Gordon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 318 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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