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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/9694
Age:
27
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
408 Sqdn.
Birth:
February 25, 1917
Palmer Green, London, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
January 27, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 13, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave.
Additional information
Son of Oswald and May Somers Pledger, of Hillsdale, Ontario.
Brother of Private Kenneth Pledger, who was killed in action on June 6, 1944 while serving with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger
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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 Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Thomas Pledger
Photo taken in southern England one week before D-Day while on leave with his brother Ken Pledger. -
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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Photo of Thomas Oswald Pledger
At 19 OTU, RAF Kinloss, Course No.40 - June 1942 -
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Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Air Gunner Thomas Oswald Pledger
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Commemorated on:
Page 418 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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AVESNES-LES-AUBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY Nord, France
Avesnes-les-Aubert is a village and commune about 11 kilometres east of the town of Cambrai. This lies some 60 kilometres south of Lille. The village is on the N.342 Cambrai-Solesmes road. The cemetery is on the western side of the village, on the D.276 road to the neighbouring village of Rieux.
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