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Military service
Service number:
J/11102
Age:
34
Rank:
Observer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
425 Sqdn.
Birth:
June 5, 1908
London, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
March 10, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 9, 1942
Swandon Morley, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 35.
Additional information
Son of Brigadier General George Strachan Cartwright, C.B., C.M.G., Officier de la Legion D'Honneur, and of Kate Mary Cartwright (nee Stevenson), of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Rhodes Scholar, Christ Church (Oxon), B.A. (University of Toronto), B.A., B.Litt. (Oxon) Christ Church College.
Digital gallery of Observer George Stevenson Cartwright
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Gravemarker
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Biography
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Biography
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Newspaper clipping
UofT online: "Two former Rhodes scholars died. One of the two, George Cartwright, had won a Rhodes to Oxford in 1929. The Memorial Book for the Second World War records : F/O George Stevenson Cartwright 425 Sqn RCAF - Trinity College, BA 1929. Killed in an air operation over Hamburg, Germany, 9, November 1942. Buried in Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire, England." ________________ Trinity online: "G. S. Cartwright Prize - A cash prize awarded to a Trinity student graduating from the International Relations Programme in high standing. The award is funded from the bequest left by the Trinity graduates of 1930 in memory of two of their classmates." __________________ -
Certificate
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Memorial
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright 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 -
Memorial
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Attestation paper
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Document
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Attestation paper
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Letter of recommendation
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Letter of recommendation
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Letter
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Letter
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Letter
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Newspaper clipping
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Photo of GEORGE STEVENSON CARTWRIGHT
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Group Photo
Group photo shows Cartwright fourth from photo right. (Prof. Thomas R. Loudon, shown in inset as team coach, served in the First World War.) From Torontonensis, University of Toronto yearbook, 1929. -
Biography
Entry from Torontonensis, University of Toronto yearbook, 1929. Cartwright was a graduate of Trinity College. -
Group Photo
Group photo of Kappa Alpha Society members shows Cartwright second row from front, fourth from photo left. From Torontonensis, University of Toronto yearbook, 1929. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
This stone stele is located in the chapel of Trinity College in the University of Toronto. “AS DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE”, “TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THIS COLLEGE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE TWO GREAT WARS”. Photo: Mana Sadeghipour, courtesy of Alumni Relations, University of Toronto. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright
Digital gallery of
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright
Digital gallery of
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright
Digital gallery of
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright
Digital gallery of
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright
Digital gallery of
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright
Digital gallery of
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright
Digital gallery of
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright
Digital gallery of
Observer George Stevenson Cartwright
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 63 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DISHFORTH CEMETERY Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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