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Cyril Webster Fitsmaurice Lawson

In memory of:

Sergeant Cyril Webster Fitsmaurice Lawson

July 26, 1941

Military Service


Service Number:

535558.

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Air Force

Division:

R.A.F. 10 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Commemorated on Page 605 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

KOERSEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Belgium

Grave Reference:

Grave 4.

Location:

Koersel Communal Cemetery is located 52 km north east of Leuven. From Leopoldsburg railway station turn right along Nicolaylaan to the 'T' junction and turn right onto the N72 over the level crossing. Follow the N 72 for 5.5 km through Heppen and take a small left-hand turning at Beverloo C C into the Heppesesteenweg. Drive 400 M and turn left along the Korspelsesteenweg. This then becomes the Stalsesteenweg which you follow for 4 kilometers to a set of traffic lights. Go straight over this junction for 200 M and turn right into an unmarked drive behind some houses. Follow the drive towards a large brick tower. The cemetery is at the end of this driveway.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Sergeant Cyril Webster Fitsmaurice Lawson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Sergeant Cyril Webster Fitsmaurice Lawson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star July 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star October 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– Source:  Globe and Mail, October 17, 1941
  • Photo of Cyril Webster Fitsmaurice Lawson– In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. 

Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
  • Plaque– In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. 

Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
  • Memorial– In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. 

Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me
  • Memorial– In memory of the Harbord Collegiate Institute students who served during World War I and World War II and did not return home. 

Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me

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