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Meyer Edsel Schwartz

In memory of:

Pilot Officer Meyer Edsel Schwartz

February 24, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

J/86762

Age:

25

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

405 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Born:

February 28, 1918
Windsor, Ontario

Son of Samuel and Fannie Schwartz of Windsor, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 438 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

WEYER COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Bas-Rhin, France

Grave Reference:

Joint grave.

Location:

Weyer is a village 54 kilometres north-west of Strasbourg and 20 kilometres north-west of Saverne, a town and sub-Prefecture on the Paris-Strasbourg road (N.4) and railway. The communal cemetery is on the eastern side of the village, on the road to Drulingen. In the northern corner is the joint grave of 2 airmen, 1 of whom belonged to the Royal Air Force and one to the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Pilot Officer Meyer Edsel Schwartz is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Pilot Officer Meyer Edsel Schwartz is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of MEYER EDSEL SCHWARTZ– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of MEYER EDSEL SCHWARTZ– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Service Book– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Notification of death– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Correspondence– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Correspondence– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Obituary– Meyer Schwartz is honoured on page 67 of the memorial book,
CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties,
compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948.  
This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume.  For additional information about these archival records, please contact:
The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives 
1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada)
telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 
facsimile:  514-931-0548 
website:     www.cjc.ca
  • Grave Marker
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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