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Francis Carlyle Goring

In memory of:

Flying Officer Francis Carlyle Goring

August 12, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

J/16344

Age:

22

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

430 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Born:

September 19, 1921
Brigden, Ontario

Enlistment:

January 4, 1941
London, Ontario

Son of Curtis William and Amy Goring, of Sarnia, Ontario.

His brother Warrant Officer Class I Curtis Albert Goring, was killed in action on September 1, 1943, while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Commemorated on Page 319 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

IV. C. 3.

Location:

Banneville-la-Campagne is a village of Normandy, in the Department of the Calvados, some 10 kilometres east of Caen on the road towards Pont Audemer and Pont l'Eveque. The BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY is some 450 metres west of the village, on the south side of the road to Caen, and about 110 metres from the road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Memorial– Hillsdale Cemetery, Petrolia, Ontario - commemorative gravemarker, not burial location
  • Photo of Francis Goring– SOURCE: WW2 service file
  • Memorial– Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022

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