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Military service
Service number:
C/6035
Age:
30
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
March 19, 1913
Spokane
Enlistment:
June 20, 1941
Death:
April 9, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 2. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of Albert and Ethel Schafer of Spokane, Washington.
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Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Memorial
Flying Officer Gordon Welsley Schafer as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023.
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Flying Officer Gordon Wellsley Schafer
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Flying Officer Gordon Wellsley Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Wellsley Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Wellsley Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Wellsley Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Wellsley Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Wellsley Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Wellsley Schafer
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Gordon Wellsley Schafer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 211 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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