Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Jack Gordon Pearce
In memory of:
Flight Sergeant Jack Gordon Pearce
July 27, 1944
Maisontiers, France
Military Service
R/190936
22
Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
619 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Additional Information
August 4, 1921
Toronto, Ontario
September 11, 1942
Toronto, Ontario
Son of William James and Elsie May Pearce (1990 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother), of Toronto, Ontario.
His brother Stewart William Pearce died December 12, 1942 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Commemorated on Page 413 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
PORNIC WAR CEMETERY
Loire-Atlantique, France
Coll. grave 1. H. 4-8.
Pornic is a small seaside resort and fishing port on the north side of Borgneuf Bay and is 51 kilometres west-south-west of Nantes and 20 kilometres south-south-east of St.Nazaire via the toll bridge over the River Loire. The PORNIC WAR CEMETERY is on the north-eastern outskirts of the town one kilometre east of the church on the south side of the road to Chauve. It lies opposite the south-eastern corner of Pornic Communal Cemetery.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Memorial – Flight Sergeant Jack Gordon Pearce is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Memorial – Flight Sergeant Jack Gordon Pearce is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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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 -
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Identification – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of JACK GORDON PEARCE – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of JACK GORDON PEARCE – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Service Book – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Attestation paper – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Attestation paper – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of JACK GORDON PEARCE – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of JACK GORDON PEARCE – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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