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Military service
Service number:
R/143569
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
May 13, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. A. Grave 355
Additional information
Son of Napoleon and Laura Lapierre Belec, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Gordon Belec
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
This is a photo of Gordon Belec's headstone in Ashbourne Cemetery Derbyshire -
Cemetery
This is a photo of Gordon Belec's grave in Ashbourne Cemetery Derbyshire amongst a group of RAF WW2 casualties. His grave is in the left row and fourth up the slope (partly obscured by the large tree). -
Photo of Gordon Belec
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation Paper
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Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation Paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Gordon Belec is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Gordon Belec is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 135 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ASHBOURNE CEMETERY Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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