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Samuel Hanan

In memory of:

Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Hanan

April 27, 1943

Military Service


Service Number:

R/101482

Age:

20

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

429 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Born:

April 29, 1922
Los Angeles, California

Enlistment:

May 17, 1941
Vancouver, British Columbia

Son of Nahman M. and Marie Calo Hanan, of Los Angeles, California, United States.

Commemorated on Page 167 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

BORNE (BORNERBROEK) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
Netherlands

Grave Reference:

Coll. grave 4-6.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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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 Samuel Hanan is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Hanan is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial Cross– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial Cross– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial Cross– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Attestation paper– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Letter– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– LA Youth Dies in Action; 15 OCT 1943, Los Angeles Evening Citizen News
  • Photo of Samuel Hanan– 1940 Yearbook, Susan Miller Dorsey HS, Los Angeles, CA
  • Grave Marker– Image captured 28th of April 2024
  • Grave Marker– Image is a better picture as the previous one I sent before and which you published. Because of Samuel’s birthday I returned at the grave a day later and have put something at his grave
  • Obituary– Samuel Hanan is honoured on page 34 of the memorial book,
CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties,
compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948.  
This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume.  For additional information about these archival records, please contact:
The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives 
1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada)
telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 
facsimile:  514-931-0548 
website:     www.cjc.ca

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