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Military service
Service number:
P/35166
Age:
29
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Death:
April 30, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 14.
Additional information
Son of Frederick G. and Annie Anson, of Kingston, Ontario. Husband of Pearl Eleanor Anson, of Kingston.
Brother of Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Leete Anson, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Warton Anson
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Photo of Lawrence Warton Anson
This is a clipping taken from a Kinston, Ontario newspaper. His brother, Edward Thomas, had also served in the Canadian forces. -
Photo of Lawrence and his father
Lawrence Warton Anson (left) with his father Frederick George Anson (right). -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Halifax Memorial
The Halifax Memorial for those missing at sea. WWOII Anson was among the troops lost when merchant marine ship SS Nerissa was sunk by a German torpedo. Read the full story on http://www.ssnerissa.com/default.asp?q=reports_charmed Four days earlier, 26 April 1941, his brother, LAC Kenneth Anson (trainee pilot) age 33, was killed at #9 SFTS, Summerside, PEI, when Harvard aircraft crashed with LAC Anson and his instructor when they were involved in a mid-air collision whilst flying in formation. -
Photo of Kenneth L. Anson
Photo of LAC Kenneth L. Anson who was killed 4 days prior to his brother, WOII Lawrence Anson, when two Harvards collided while on a formation training flight in P.E.I. -
Photo of Lawrence Anson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Circumstances of death registers
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Warton Anson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Warton Anson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Warton Anson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Warton Anson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Warton Anson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Warton Anson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Warton Anson
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Warton Anson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 22 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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