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Charles Mohamed Slyman Awad

In memory of:

Flight Lieutenant Charles Mohamed Slyman Awad

April 27, 1943

Military Service

Service Number:

J/15639

Age:

22

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

429 Sqdn.

Additional Information

Son of Charley and Mary Awad, of Truro, Nova Scotia.

Commemorated on Page 133 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

BERGEN GENERAL CEMETERY
Netherlands

Grave Reference:

Plot 2. Row E. Grave 9.

Location:

Bergen is on the coast 6 kilometres north-west of Alkmaar and 43 kilometres north-north-west of Amsterdam, lying 3 kilometres west of the main Alkmaar-Den Helder road. The BERGEN GENERAL CEMETERY is on the north-eastern outskirts of Bergen, in the road known as Kerkedijk. The British plots are in the south-eastern part of the cemetery.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Flight Lieutenant Charles Mohamed Slyman Awad is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flight Lieutenant Charles Mohamed Slyman Awad is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Lieutenant Charles Mohamed Slyman Awad is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flight Lieutenant Charles Mohamed Slyman Awad 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
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    Newspaper clipping – Photo from newspaper clipping of then Sgt
  • Grave Marker– (Photo used with permission of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands.) Wellington HE737 was airborne 0037 27Apr 43 from East Moor on a mission to Duisburg. Homebound, it was shot down from 16,000 feet by a Me110 and crashed near Bergen (Noord Holland). F/L Awad was the only member of the RCAF on board the aircraft. The three crew members killed are buried in the town's General Cemetery: Sgt K.E.Rabbitt, RAF; F/O R.H.Larkins; F/L C.M.S.Awad RCAF. One member of the RCAF, F/O S.M.N. Pozer, was taken PoW. He was interned in Camp L3, PoW No.1334. Others were S/L J.C.Cairns DFC MiD who was interned in Camp L3. PoW No.1321. Stood a Dulag Luft Trial. F/S R.T.Lang PoW also stood a Dulag Luft Trial before internment in Camps L1/L6/L4, PoW No.1187. (The Dulag Luft was the Luftwaffe interrogation centre.) (From www.lostbombers.co.uk)

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    Grave Marker – (Photo used with permission of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands.) Wellington HE737 was airborne 0037 27Apr 43 from East Moor on a mission to Duisburg. Homebound, it was shot down from 16,000 feet by a Me110 and crashed near Bergen (Noord Holland). F/L Awad was the only member of the RCAF on board the aircraft. The three crew members killed are buried in the town's General Cemetery: Sgt K.E.Rabbitt, RAF; F/O R.H.Larkins; F/L C.M.S.Awad RCAF. One member of the RCAF, F/O S.M.N. Pozer, was taken PoW. He was interned in Camp L3, PoW No.1334. Others were S/L J.C.Cairns DFC MiD who was interned in Camp L3. PoW No.1321. Stood a Dulag Luft Trial. F/S R.T.Lang PoW also stood a Dulag Luft Trial before internment in Camps L1/L6/L4, PoW No.1187. (The Dulag Luft was the Luftwaffe interrogation centre.) (From www.lostbombers.co.uk)

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