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Military service
Service number:
J/28197
Age:
27
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
433 Sqdn.
Death:
August 16, 1944
Sonderby, Bhjerge, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 174.
Additional information
Son of Charly and Andrée Clerc, of Zurich, Switzerland. Brother of Francois and Laurent. Flying Officer Clerc was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan.
After a memorial service on Wednesday 9 July 1947 in the evening the father of Flying Officer Clerc, Professor Charly Clerc, Zurich, unveiled the memorial wall erected by the parish."
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Memorial Wall at Sonderby Churchyard
Text: These allied airmen found death in the Little Belt on 17 August 1944. Danes erected this memorial in gratitude for the liberation of Denmark. It was unveiled after a memorial service on 9 July 1947 by Professor Charly Clerc, Zurich, father of Flying Officer Clerc. (Finn Buch) Courtesy of www.flensted.eu.com -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Jacques Robert Olivier Clerc
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 275 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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SONDERBY (ASSENS) CHURCHYARD Denmark
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