Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper Clipping – Mrs Martha Labarge Silver Cross Mother 1947. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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 Bernard Henry Labarge is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer Bernard Henry Labarge is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Photo of BERNARD HENRY LABARGE – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of BERNARD HENRY LABARGE – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Other – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Other – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Other – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Other – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Other – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Other – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022

Photo of Bernard Labarge – Pilot Officer Bernard Henry Labarge (left) and his brother Flight Sergeant Leo John Labarge (right) Pilot Officer Bernard (“Bern”) Labarge was second Pilot on a bombing mission over Germany on the night of March 12, 1943. Flying with the 405th Squadron, the mission was completed successfully but the returning airplanes came under heavy enemy fire. Pilot/Officer Labarge’s airplane wreckage was discovered in France near the town of Aisne where he and his five fellow airmen were discovered and buried by the local townsfolk. He was 28 years old and is buried in the communal cemetery at La Malmaison, Aisne, France. Flight Sergeant Leo Labarge was two years younger than his brother Bernard and was known as a young air gunner with a great sense of humour and adventure. He was shot down on the 30th day of September 1942 near Trigh Capuzzo, Lybia and was buried there by German forces. His body was not discovered until March 1943 and news of his death was confirmed to his mother during the same week as the death of her older son, Pilot/Officer Bernard Labarge. Flight Sergeant Leo Labarge was with the 148th Squadron and is buried at the Knightsbridge War Cemetery, 25 kilometres west of Tobruk, in open country south of the main road from Tobruk to Derna and Benghazi.

Grave marker – The original gravesite of Bernard Henry Labarge and his fellow airmen in 1945 at La Malmaison, France. Pilot Officer Bernard (“Bern”) Labarge was second Pilot on a bombing mission over Germany on the night of March 12, 1943. Flying with the 405th Squadron, the mission was completed successfully but the returning airplanes came under heavy enemy fire. Pilot/Officer Labarge’s airplane wreckage was discovered in France near the town of Aisne where he and his five fellow airmen were discovered and buried by the local townsfolk.

Newspaper Clipping – From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me