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Military service
Service number:
J/19590
Age:
24
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
550 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
May 28, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave X. 18. 29.
Additional information
Son of Alexander Elvin Purney and Mabel Purney.
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Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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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 -
Group Photo
Elvin Curtis Purney, RCAF, J.19590 P, Pilot Officer, on Lancaster JA712-BQ-H, KIA in Rebecq, Belgium on 27/28 May 1944, buried in Cemetery of Brussels-Evere, Coll. Grave X1829 Parents: Alexander Elvin Purney and Mabel Purney.<P> Thomas Edward Flanagan, RCAF, J.92033, Navigator on Lancaster JA712-BQ-H, KIA in Rebecq, Belgium on 27/28 May 1944, buried in Cemetery of Brussels-Evere, Coll. Grave X28.31. Parents: Edward James Flanagan and Minnie Flanagan, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Nephew of Emma Hollis, of Ottawa, Ontario. <P> Elie Molnar, RCAF, R.168366 A/B, Bomber, jumped with his parachute, was rescued and hidden by Belgian resistance. -
Close up photo of Elvin Purney
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Photo of ELVIN CURTIS PURNEY
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Notification of death
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Discharge certificate
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Correspondence
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.May 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Elvin Curtis Purney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 422 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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