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Military service
Service number:
J/90312
Age:
20
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
429 Sqdn.
Death:
August 1, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 5.
Additional information
Son of William L. and Gertrude Lindensmith, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Cemetery
Photo courtesy Regis Biaux,France, and Pierre Vandervelden, Belgium, of www.inmemories.com On 31 July 1944, the crew of Halifax LV 950 was airborne at 2151 from their base at RAF Leeming on a mission to attack the V-1 Site at St-Martin-au-Bosc. They failed to return and it was assumed the aircraft had been hit by flak. German military buried the bodies of the crew with the help of Italian POWs. They rest together in a plot in the St-Martin-au-Bosc Communal Cemetery. They were: P/Os John R. Irish (P); John A. Santo (N); Hugh B. Gilmore (AG); P/O (AG) Gordon Lindensmith (AG) F/Os (WAG) Wm. J. Wright (WAG); John E. Gloeckler (BA) and RAF P/O Reg. T. Walsham (FE). -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Kelvin Youngs, Aircrew Remembered -
Photo of Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
Photo from his RCAF record. -
Photo of Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Document
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Id card
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Document
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Letter
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Letter
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Attestation paper
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Attestation paper
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Leroy Lindensmith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 366 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. MARTIN-AU-BOSC COMMUNAL CEMETERY Seine-Maritime, France
St. Martin-au-Bosc is a village and commune 42 kilometres east-south-east of Dieppe, and 11 kilometres south of Blangy, where the Le Treport-Aumale-Paris road (N.15 bis) crosses the Rouen to Abbeville road (N.28). The cemetery is on the south-east side of the village, down a rough track, 600 yards from the church. Near, and south-east of the crucifix in the centre of the cemetery are the graves of 1 officer of the Royal Air Force and 6 officers of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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