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Sergeant Gordon Lindsay Chapman

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Military service

Service number: R/63908
Age: 26
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 57 Sqn. (RAF)
Birth: September 15, 1915 Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment: April 13, 1940 Ontario
Death: September 29, 1941

Burial/memorial information

RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 61.
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Son of William Frederick and Lottie Adorah Chapman, of Toronto, Ontario.

He was a drummer in the Queen's York Ranger Army Cadet Corps in Toronto, Ontario, from 1931 to 1933, a soldier in the 48th Highlanders of Canada – NPAM – from 1933 to 1935 and a gunner in the Royal Canadian Field Artillery – NPAM – from 1935 to 1936.

He served in Canada and Great Britain. He had 535 days of service, including 135 overseas.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 26 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom

During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.

The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:

IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE

In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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