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Military service
Service number:
R/77581
Age:
27
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
487 Sqdn.
Birth:
August 5, 1915
Castor, Alberta
Enlistment:
November 23, 1940
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
April 4, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 186.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
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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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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Several letters were written home to Castor, Alberta. The village that Sylvan refers to is Feltwell. He says for his folks to not worry about him getting into any trouble there, because it's about as dead as Castor! -
Photo of Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Taken of Sylvan in July, 1942 before he took final Canadian R.C.A.F. training at Pennfield, NB. then went to Halifax to take the ship to England - Nov. '42 -
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R77581 Killed after their Ventura AE 957 attacked Rotterdam shipyards. The plane was having trouble before bombing. On their return they passed over a German convoy 5 minutes off Hollands coast. Their plane caught fire, went into a shallow dive, hit the water, and two fighters finished them off, None of the four crew bailed out. Pilot Steedman Nav. O'Conner WO/AG's S.E. Weaver & J.A. Williamson -
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This top photo taken at Methwold shows the Ventura AE's. After the raid in Amsterdam May 3, 1943 in which 11 aircraft of 12 from Sqn. 487 failed to return, the Ventura's were taken out of Bomber Command and transferred to Coastal Command. These planes proved incapable for light bombing duties. -
Photo of Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Taken early January in front of a Ventura (not the exact one he was killed in) at Feltwell, England. Sylvan 5th from the left back row with his 22 RCAF comrades together since training in Pennfield, N.B. The 3 killed with him: Stafford O'Conner (Navigator) Robert Steedman (Pilot), J.A. Williamson WO/AG. -
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Flight C group taken sometime after July 7, 1942. This was at #34 OTU Pennfield - our last stop before deployment to England. There are 70 of us from (mostly) the three prairie provinces. Sylvan is 5th from the right, back row. I'm not sure if this part of Military secrets or coincidental, but Sylvan's I.D. # was 77581. The 3rd # - a 5 was his position in two group pictures found. This one and in the Feltwell picture - 5th from the left back row. -
Photo of Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
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Commemorated on:
Page 225 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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