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Ernest Joseph Le Blanc

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Ernest Joseph Le Blanc

July 30, 1942

Military Service

Service Number:

R/77455

Age:

24

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

149 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information

Son of Eusebe and Marie Le Blanc, of St. Joseph du Moine, Inverness Co., Nova Scotia. Flight Sergeant Ernest J. Le Blanc served with the 149 East India (Fortis Nocte) Squadron. His Stirling aircraft R 9161 was shot down while returning from a raid over Saarbrucken, Germany and crashed near Regniowez, France. The other Canadian in the crew was Sergeant James Avedisian, age 25, of Brantford, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 89 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY
Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Grave Reference:

1A. A. Coll. grave 1-6.

Location:

Choloy is a village and commune in the Department of the Meurthe-et-Moselle, 28 kilometres west of Nancy and some 5 kilometres west of Toul, a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy. The village is south of the River Moselle on the minor road (D11B) from Toul to the neighbouring village of Foug. The CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY is 3 kilometres west of Toul on the north side of the D11B road. The Choloy War Cemetery is the last resting place of casualties from the First and Second World Wars and is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is also the final resting place for many Royal Canadian Air Force members and their families who died while serving in Europe as part of 1 Air Division between 1953 and 1967 and other Service Members serving with NATO in Germany following Canada's departure from France.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Ernest Joseph Le Blanc as commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flight Sergeant Ernest Joseph Le Blanc as commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Ernest Joseph Le Blanc is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flight Sergeant Ernest Joseph Le Blanc 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

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    Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Extract from a Belgian review of local history: "Au Pays des Rièzes et des Sarts" tome 150 (1998) Name of the article: July 29-30, 1942: the raid without return of the Stirling R 9161. Author: Jacques SACRE.

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    Memorial – Extract from a Belgian review of local history: "Au Pays des Rièzes et des Sarts" tome 150 (1998) Name of the article: July 29-30, 1942: the raid without return of the Stirling R 9161. Author: Jacques SACRE.

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