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Military service
Service number:
R/70090
Age:
20
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
408 Sqdn.
Death:
May 9, 1942
Sea off Mandø Island, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
AIII. 11. 17.
Additional information
Son of Phil J. and Amber Hazel Norton, of Caledonia, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
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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
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of JAMES SHIELD NORTON
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Grave Marker
Sergeant James Shield Norton's final resting place in Esbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery Denmark -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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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 May 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star May 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram May 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Shield Norton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 103 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ESBJERG (FOURFELT) CEMETERY Denmark
Esbjerg is a port in south-western Jutland. ESBJERG (FOURFELT) CEMETERY is about 3 kilometres to the north of the town, off the road to Hjerting, along the Gravlundvej.
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