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Military service
Service number:
J/26652
Age:
25
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
424 Sqdn.
Death:
July 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. Grave 2.
Additional information
Son of John Ambrose and Mary Adele O'Brien, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Lawrence Francis O'Brien
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Photo of Lawrence O'Brien
From: University of Toronto Memorial Book Second World War 1939-1945. The book was published by the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto. <P> Submitted with permission, by Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Gazette. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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 Lawrence Francis O'Brien is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Lawrence Francis O'Brien is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of LAWRENCE FRANCIS O'BRIEN
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Attestation paper
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Grave marker
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Correspondence
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Biography
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 407 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOISSY-SOUS-ST. YON COMMUNAL CEMETERY Essonne, France
Boissy-sous-St. Yon is a village 28 kilometres south-south-east of Versailles, and 7 kilometres south-south-west of Arpajon. The cemetery is on the south side of the village at the end of a by-road leading from the road to the neighbouring village of Breuillet.
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