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Flying Officer John William Lippert

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Military service

Service number: J/27245
Age: 23
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 440 Sqdn.
Birth: July 2, 1921 Kitchener, Ontario
Enlistment: May 25, 1942 Hamilton, Ontario
Death: July 30, 1944

Burial/memorial information

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: XXI. E. 5.
Additional information
Son of Herbert Albert and Genevieve Belle (nee Jones) Lippert, of Kitchener, Ontario. Brother of Richard, Robert, Jane, Claudia, Larry, Gwen, Patrick, Terrance, Herbert, Rosemary, Angela and Virginia.
Additional citations

1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, the 24 January 1947.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 366 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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