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Edward Franklin Gilbert

In memory of:

Flying Officer Edward Franklin Gilbert

March 13, 1945

Military Service


Service Number:

J/25446

Age:

26

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

215 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information


Sqdn. Son of Verner Montfort Gilbert and Ella Moffatt Gilbert, of Windsor Mills, Province of Quebec, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 518 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

10. B. 6.

Location:

Maynamati is some 7 kilometres from the centre of Comilla, which is on the railway line linking Dhaka to Chittagong. It can be reached by train to Comilla railway station, 9 kilometres from the MAYNAMATI WAR CEMETERY, or by the Dhaka -Chittagong highway. The cemetery is 1 kilometre down the road leading from Comilla to Sylinet and a short distance past the Cantonment Military Hospital. There is a C.W.G.C. road direction sign on a roundabout at the crossroad.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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