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Military service
Service number:
J/45415
Age:
27
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
April 13, 1917
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
March 16, 1943
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
December 2, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 3. Column 4.
Additional information
Son of Eben Miller Staples and Edna Grace Staples; husband of Emily May Staples, of Toronto, Ontario.
Brother of Flight Sergeant Gerald Frank Staples who died on June 13, 1944 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
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Frederiction War Memorial
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Inscription
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Alonzo and May's wedding photo.
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Alonzo Irvine Staples
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Photo of Alonzo Irvine Staples
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Attestation paper
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Document
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Attestation Paper
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alonzo Irvine Staples
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 450 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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