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Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Sylvan Ellwood Weaver
Digital gallery of
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
Digital gallery of
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
Digital gallery of
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
Digital gallery of
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!
Digital gallery of
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
Digital gallery of
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
Digital gallery of
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.
Digital gallery of
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.
Digital gallery of
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.
Digital gallery of
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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Page 225 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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