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Military service
Service number:
J/88163
Age:
20
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
424 Tiger Squadron
Birth:
February 11, 1924
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
June 17, 1942
Montreal, Québec
Death:
November 1, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. E. 11.
Additional information
Son of Albert Jacobs and Becky Singer of Montreal, Quebec.
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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 -
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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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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
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Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs
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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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