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Military service
Service number:
R/162667
Age:
23
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
15 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
June 10, 1921
Death:
June 13, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
12. C. 6.
Additional information
Son of George G. and Nettie Lemky, of Port Mann, City of Surrey, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Correspondence
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Document
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Correspondence
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Service Book
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands) WO2 Lemky was Bomb Aimer on Lancaster LM-465 which took part in the following Key Raids: Berlin 24/25mar44; Nuremberg 30/31Mar44. Airborne 2315 12 Jun 44 from Mildenhall. Intercepted and shot down by a night-fighter, crashing 2 km SW of Meerlo in the Dutch Province of Limburg. Those killed were buried at Venlo, and subsequently re-interred in Jonkerbos War Cemetery. They were 3 members of the RCAF: P/O (P) C.S.Thompson, WO2 (BA) R. G. Lemky and WO2 (N) R. McMiillan and 3 members of the RAF: Sgt M.B.Pelham, Sgt T.E.Stubbs, and Sgt R.S.Mobbs. One RAF, F/S J.M.Trend, survived and was listed as an evader. (Source: //lostbombers.co.uk) -
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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
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky as commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Ronald George Lemky
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Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ronald George Lemky
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Commemorated on:
Page 364 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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