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Lieu de l’enterrement/commemoration
Galerie numérique de Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
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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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Several letters were written home to Castor, Alberta. The village that Sylvan refers to is Feltwell. He says for his folks to not worry about him getting into any trouble there, because it's about as dead as Castor!
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Taken of Sylvan in July, 1942 before he took final Canadian R.C.A.F. training at Pennfield, NB. then went to Halifax to take the ship to England - Nov. '42
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
R77581 Killed after their Ventura AE 957 attacked Rotterdam shipyards. The plane was having trouble before bombing. On their return they passed over a German convoy 5 minutes off Hollands coast. Their plane caught fire, went into a shallow dive, hit the water, and two fighters finished them off, None of the four crew bailed out. Pilot Steedman Nav. O'Conner WO/AG's S.E. Weaver & J.A. Williamson
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
This top photo taken at Methwold shows the Ventura AE's. After the raid in Amsterdam May 3, 1943 in which 11 aircraft of 12 from Sqn. 487 failed to return, the Ventura's were taken out of Bomber Command and transferred to Coastal Command. These planes proved incapable for light bombing duties.
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Taken early January in front of a Ventura (not the exact one he was killed in) at Feltwell, England. Sylvan 5th from the left back row with his 22 RCAF comrades together since training in Pennfield, N.B. The 3 killed with him: Stafford O'Conner (Navigator) Robert Steedman (Pilot), J.A. Williamson WO/AG.
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Flight C group taken sometime after July 7, 1942. This was at #34 OTU Pennfield - our last stop before deployment to England. There are 70 of us from (mostly) the three prairie provinces. Sylvan is 5th from the right, back row. I'm not sure if this part of Military secrets or coincidental, but Sylvan's I.D. # was 77581. The 3rd # - a 5 was his position in two group pictures found. This one and in the Feltwell picture - 5th from the left back row.
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
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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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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Several letters were written home to Castor, Alberta. The village that Sylvan refers to is Feltwell. He says for his folks to not worry about him getting into any trouble there, because it's about as dead as Castor!
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Taken of Sylvan in July, 1942 before he took final Canadian R.C.A.F. training at Pennfield, NB. then went to Halifax to take the ship to England - Nov. '42
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R77581 Killed after their Ventura AE 957 attacked Rotterdam shipyards. The plane was having trouble before bombing. On their return they passed over a German convoy 5 minutes off Hollands coast. Their plane caught fire, went into a shallow dive, hit the water, and two fighters finished them off, None of the four crew bailed out. Pilot Steedman Nav. O'Conner WO/AG's S.E. Weaver & J.A. Williamson
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This top photo taken at Methwold shows the Ventura AE's. After the raid in Amsterdam May 3, 1943 in which 11 aircraft of 12 from Sqn. 487 failed to return, the Ventura's were taken out of Bomber Command and transferred to Coastal Command. These planes proved incapable for light bombing duties.
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Taken early January in front of a Ventura (not the exact one he was killed in) at Feltwell, England. Sylvan 5th from the left back row with his 22 RCAF comrades together since training in Pennfield, N.B. The 3 killed with him: Stafford O'Conner (Navigator) Robert Steedman (Pilot), J.A. Williamson WO/AG.
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Flight C group taken sometime after July 7, 1942. This was at #34 OTU Pennfield - our last stop before deployment to England. There are 70 of us from (mostly) the three prairie provinces. Sylvan is 5th from the right, back row. I'm not sure if this part of Military secrets or coincidental, but Sylvan's I.D. # was 77581. The 3rd # - a 5 was his position in two group pictures found. This one and in the Feltwell picture - 5th from the left back row.
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MÉMORIAL DE RUNNYMEDE Surrey, Royaume-Uni
Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, plus de cent seize mille hommes et femmes des forces aériennes du Commonwealth britannique sont morts au champ d'honneur. Plus de dix-sept mille d'entre eux étaient membres de l'Aviation royale canadienne ou des Canadiens qui servaient dans la Royal Air Force. Presque un tiers des morts n'ont pas de sépulture connue. De ce total, vingt mille quatre cent cinquante sont commémorés par nom au Mémorial de Runnymede situé à Englefield Green, près d'Egham, à trente-deux kilomètres à l'ouest de Londres.
L'architecture du Mémorial de Runnymede est originale et impressionnante. La pierre du Souvenir repose au centre d'un cloître qui domine une tour carrée perchée sur le sommet de la colline de Cooper qui surplombe la Tamise. Les allées du cloître aboutissent à deux observatoires, l'un donnant sur Windsor, l'autre sur l'aéroport de Londres à Heathrow. Les trois mille cinquante aviateurs canadiens tués au combat sont parmi ceux dont les noms sont gravés sur les revers de pierre des fenêtres étroites des allées cloîtrées et des observatoires.
Au-dessus de l'entrée à trois arches qui conduit au cloître, trône un aigle de pierre surmonté de la devise de la Royal Air Force «Per Ardua ad Astra». De chaque côté, figure une inscription en anglais dont voici la traduction :
« CE CLOÎTRE HONORE LES NOMS DE 20 000 AVIATEURS SANS SÉPULTURE CONNUE QUI SONT MORTS POUR LA LIBERTÉ LORS DES OPÉRATIONS AÉRIENNES AU-DESSUS DES ÎLES BRITANNIQUES, ET DES TERRES ET MERS DU NORD ET DE L'OUEST DE L'EUROPE. »
Dans la tour se trouve un sanctuaire voûté, paisible et propice à la méditation. On peut y lire, orné d'enluminures, un extrait d'un poème anglais de Paul H. Scott.
Pour plus d’informations, visitez la Commission des sépultures de guerre du Commonwealth (site disponible en anglais seulement).
L’image du coquelicot est une marque déposée de la Légion royale canadienne (Direction nationale) et est utilisée avec sa permission. Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus sur le coquelicot.
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