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Military service
Service number:
J/23950
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant Navigator
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
405 Sqdn.
Death:
May 9, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 31.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp
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War Memorial
Vespera Cenotaph-Barrie, Ontario -
Newspaper clipping
This report appeared on page 1 of the Barrie Examiner newspaper (Barrie, Ontario) on 18 May 1944. F/L Knupp was the navigator in a Lancaster bomber of 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron, in Bomber Command's elite Pathfinder Force, that was shot down at Chievres, Belgium, during a night raid against Haine St. Pierre, Belgium. -
Newspaper Clipping
This picture of Flight Lieutenant Gordon W. Knupp, Royal Canadian Air Force, appeared in the Barrie Examiner newspaper (Barrie, Ontario) at page 1 on 18 May 1944. -
Memorial
Barrie street named in honour of Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp with a poppy. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of GORDON WINSTON KNUPP
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Family Photo
L-R Carson, Winston, Yvonne and Vona. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
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Photo of GORDON WINSTON KNUPP
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Attestation paper
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Attestation paper
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Group Photo
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Memorial
Each year in Barrie, Ontario, in about October and November, banners commemorating local war dead are displayed. Pictured here is a banner in memory of Flight Lieutenant G. Winston Knupp. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2020.) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Barrie Examiner c. 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Gordon Winston Knupp
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 354 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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