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Military service
Service number:
R/191520
Age:
19
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
115 Sqdn.
Death:
February 25, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 255.
Additional information
Son of Lewis Garfield Ward and Ellen Jane Ward, of London, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
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Photo of Gordon Lewis Ward
He joined the Air Force in September 1942, gained his Wireless Air Gunner's wing at Mount Joli, Quebec and was posted overseas in June 1943. He was a gunner in a Lancaster bomber of #115 RAF Squadron when he failed to return from a raid on Frankfurt Germany. -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward 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 -
Photo of GORDON LEWIS WARD
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Photo of GORDON LEWIS WARD
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Gordon Lewis Ward
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 471 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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