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Son of Carl and Edith Maud (nee) Moore Vincent of Windsor, Ontario. Brother of Louis Earl Reynard.
Pilot Officer Gordon Kenneth Vimy Ridge Vincent was named after the site of the great battle on 9 April 1917, in which his mother's brother, Corporal Gordon Moore, lost his life on 4 May 1917. He attended Dougal Avenue Public School, Patterson Collegiate and O'Neill Business College after which he obtained employment at Guittard and Company, Windsor, Ontario as a bookkeeper and stockman. Corporal Vincent had 35 successful operational sorties in his career.
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Page 469 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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