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Military service
Service number:
J/17282
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
428 Sqdn.
Birth:
March 10, 1921
Finley
Enlistment:
May 27, 1941
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death:
August 3, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 178.
Additional information
Son of John and Olive Sylvester of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Brother of Lance Bombardier Clarence Eugene Sylvester, who died on July 7, 1944, while serving with the Royal Canadian Artillery.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … 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 Victor Thomas Sylvester is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Victor Thomas Sylvester
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 218 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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