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Military service
Service number:
J/26287
Age:
27
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
#78 Squadron(Nemo Non Paratus)
Birth:
May 26, 1917
Death:
June 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 4. Row 10.
Additional information
Son of William and Pauline Gold; husband of Margaret Ellinor Gold, of Edmonton, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Leonard Gold
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Photo of Leonard Gold
Posing for a photo on leave. -
Photo of Leonard Gold
This is one other of Leonard that I found in my album and thought would make a nice addition. Len -
Photo of Leonard Gold
Leonard Gold is honoured on page 30 of the memorial book,<br> CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties,<br> compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948. <br> This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume. For additional information about these archival records, please contact:<p> The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives <br> 1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada)<br> telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 <br> facsimile: 514-931-0548 <br> website: www.cjc.ca -
Memorial
Flying Officer Leonard Gold is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Leonard Gold 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 Leonard Gold
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Identification
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Photo of Leonard Gold
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Service book
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Document
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Correspondence
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Photo of Leonard Gold
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Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Bulletin June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Bulletin May 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 317 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CORBEIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY Essonne, France
Corbeil or Corbeil-Essonnes is a town south-south-east of Paris. From Paris take the motorway A6-E15 in the direction of Lyon. Take the N104 exit at/after Evry and follow the N104 to Corbeil. The cemetery is near Corbeil Station. It is called "Cimetiere des Tarterets". the grave of one Canadian airman of the 1939-1945 War is south of the entrance, and in the French Military Plot is the grave of a British soldier of the 1914-1918 War.
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