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Avron Jacobs

In memory of:

Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs

November 1, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

J/88163

Age:

20

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

424 Tiger Squadron

Additional Information


Born:

February 11, 1924
Montreal, Quebec

Enlistment:

June 17, 1942
Montreal, Quebec

Son of Albert Jacobs and Becky Singer of Montreal, Quebec.

Commemorated on Page 343 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

IV. E. 11.

Location:

Nederweert is a village 38 km north west of Roermond, 21 km south east of Eindhoven and 5 km north east of Weert. The NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY is 150 metres west of the church and the same distance east of the road from Weert to Helmond. The entrance to the cemetery is closed to vehicles and visitors must walk the 50 metres to the Commission plot. The NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY is signposted on the N266 Nederweert - Helmond road. The N266 is indicated from the Nederweert exit on the A2 Motorway Eindhoven Maastricht.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Photo of Crew– The Jacobs crew, who were all killed on November 1, 1944 on an ops to Oberhausen.
  • Id card– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of AVRON JACOBS– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Grave marker– 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
  • Letter– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Avron Jacobs– Young Avron Jacobs as a boy in Montreal.
  • Photo of Avron Jacobs– Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs RCAF
  • Photo of Avron Jacobs– as photographed by the RCAF
  • Photo of Avron Jacobs– Avron Jacobs is honoured on page 37 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
  • Memorial Cross– Memorial Cross awarded to commemorate the death of Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs RCAF.
  • Gravemarker
  • Memorial– Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs 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
  • Memorial– Pilot Officer Avron Jacobs is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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