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Digital gallery of Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
Leading Aircraftsman Gordon Cragg Burke
born 22-06-21
Former student of Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute (Toronto)
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
LAC Burke's high school registration card that he filled out on entering Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute when it opened in Sept 1936. He left the school in 1942.
Notes on the bottom are those of the office staff on hearing of his death in training.
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
Accident Report into the Burke accident that killed six men in two aircraft. page 1
Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
Report on the injury to Burke from the accident
Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
The Burke family marker in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. Gordon was one of three young men from the same high school to die in RCAF training and be buried in this cemetery. The graves are within sight of each other in sections 31, 32 & 33.
Source: R. W. Whitehouse
School Archivist(The War Years)
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Gordon Cragg Burke
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Leading Aircraftsman Gordon Cragg Burke born 22-06-21 Former student of Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute (Toronto)
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LAC Burke's high school registration card that he filled out on entering Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute when it opened in Sept 1936. He left the school in 1942. Notes on the bottom are those of the office staff on hearing of his death in training.
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Accident Report into the Burke accident that killed six men in two aircraft. page 1 Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada
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Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada
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Report on the injury to Burke from the accident Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada
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Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada
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The Burke family marker in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. Gordon was one of three young men from the same high school to die in RCAF training and be buried in this cemetery. The graves are within sight of each other in sections 31, 32 & 33. Source: R. W. Whitehouse School Archivist(The War Years)
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 61 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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TORONTO (MOUNT PLEASANT) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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