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Pilot Officer Ernest Albert Wesley Dawson

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Military service

Service number: J/88669
Age: 27
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 142 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: November 14, 1916 Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment: June 19, 1942 Ontario
Death: July 13, 1944

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Coll. grave V. D. 1-5.
Additional information
Son of Ernest and Florence Dawson of Toronto, Ontario.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 287 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MILAN WAR CEMETERY Italy

Follow the A1 north towards Milan. Exit from the A1 following the signs for Tangenziale West. Exit from the Tangenziale (main road) following the blue signs for Milano, route SS11. Proceed in the direction of Milano and pass the Grand Hotel Brun. Take the sharp turn to the left following the CWGC signs. The Cemetery lies in a large park approximately 0.5 kilometre along on the right.

The MILAN WAR CEMETERY is permanently open and may be visited outside the working hours of the local gardening staff but will be unmanned.

The local gardening staff working hours are as follows:
From first Monday in April:
Monday to Thursday: 07.30 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 16.45
Friday: 07.30 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 15.30
From first Monday in October:
Monday to Thursday: 08.00 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 16.00
Friday: 08.00 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 15.00

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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