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Military service
Service number:
C/2003
Age:
28
Rank:
Squadron Leader
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
415 Sqdn.
Birth:
December 17, 1915
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
February 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 243.
Additional information
Son of Frederick Merton Gibson and Pauline Weir Gibson; husband of Marjorie E. Gibson, of Picton, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
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Biography
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Memorial Room
Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo: David Pike, courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial Book
University of Toronto Memorial Book, Second World War 1939-1945. Edited by H. E. Brown, published by the Soldiers' Tower Committee, 1993. Entry on page 24 reads: "S/L Maurice Weir GIBSON RCAF, 415 Sqn RAF. Former student Trinity College, Arts, 1933-34. Missing, presumed dead, after an air operation overseas, 8 February 1944. Name inscribed on the Runnymede Memorial, Cooper's Hill, Egham, Surrey, England." -
Memorial Stele
This stone stele is located in the chapel at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. "AS DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE. TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THIS COLLEGE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE TWO GREAT WARS." The name of "M.W. GIBSON" is among those inscribed. -
Memorial Scroll
This framed illuminated scroll, written in calligraphy, is entitled "Men and Women of Trinity College on Active Service. Met'Agona Stephanos". It hangs in the hallway outside the narthex of the chapel at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. Small symbols beside the names indicate men and women who are fallen, decorated, and prisoner of war. The list of names includes: '37 Gibson, M.W. Photo: Cody Gagnon, courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
The Soldiers' Tower was built by the University of Toronto Alumni Association in 1924 as a memorial to the Great War of 1914-1918. The names of those who died in that conflict are carved on the Memorial Screen at photo left. After the Second World War, more names were carved in the Memorial Arch at the Tower's base. In total, almost 1,200 names are inscribed. A Memorial Room inside the Tower contains mementoes and artifacts, and a 51-bell carillon serves as the audio element of the living memorial to the alumni, students, faculty and staff who died in the World Wars. The Soldiers' Tower is the site of an annual Service of Remembrance. Photo: Kathy Parks, Alumni Relations. -
Memorial Arch West
Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo: David Pike, courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Photo of MAURICE WEIR GIBSON
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Letter
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Photo of MAURICE WEIR GIBSON
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Letter
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 315 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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