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Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
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Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs RCAF -
Memorial Cross
Memorial Cross awarded to commemorate the death of Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs RCAF. -
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Young Avron Jacobs as a boy in Montreal. -
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Avron Jacobs is honoured on page 37 of the memorial book,<br> CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties,<br> compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948. <br> This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume. For additional information about these archival records, please contact:<p> The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives <br> 1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada)<br> telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 <br> facsimile: 514-931-0548 <br> website: www.cjc.ca -
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The Jacobs crew, who were all killed on November 1, 1944 on an ops to Oberhausen. -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
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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Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 343 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY Netherlands
Nederweert is a village 38 km north west of Roermond, 21 km south east of Eindhoven and 5 km north east of Weert. The NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY is 150 metres west of the church and the same distance east of the road from Weert to Helmond. The entrance to the cemetery is closed to vehicles and visitors must walk the 50 metres to the Commission plot.
The NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY is signposted on the N266 Nederweert - Helmond road. The N266 is indicated from the Nederweert exit on the A2 Motorway Eindhoven Maastricht.
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