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Military service
Service number:
R/175903
Age:
31
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
103 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
July 13, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 3.
Additional information
Son of Swan and Mabel O. Olson, of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant George Orlando Olson
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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 Sergeant George Orlando Olson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant George Orlando Olson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Family Photo
George' mother and father are on each side of him and the children in front are his nephew Dale, his niece Donna and his brother Barry -
Photo of GEORGE ORLANDO OLSON
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Photo of GEORGE ORLANDO OLSON
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Grave marker
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Service Book
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Document
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Document
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 408 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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COUVONGES CHURCHYARD Meuse, France
Couvonges is a village and commune 10 kilometres west of Bar-le-Duc and 8 kilometres south-south-east of Revigny-sur-Ornain, a village on the main road from Bar-le-Duc to Reims (Marne).
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