ALLEN, Lawrence Arnold
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- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Birth
- June 22, 1917
- Date of Death
- April 28, 1944
- Place of Burial
- Diest, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Cemetery
- Webbekom Churchyard
- Age at Time of Death
- 26
- Enlistment No.
- J-14769
- Rank
- Flight Lieutenant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Allen, of Windsor, Ontario, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on April 27, 1944. The citation stated: "This officer has completed, as navigator, many successful operations against the enemy in the course of which he has invariably displayed high skill, fortitude and devotion to Duty.” He enlisted at Windsor on July 1, 1942, and after receiving his training at the No. 5 I. T. S. and No. 1 A. D. S., he went overseas in October, where he continued his studies as a navigator. He served with the Snowy Owl Bomber Squadron in North Africa and spent his 26th birthday on a bombing mission over Italy. He later flew with the Pathfinder Squadron in attacks over Germany and was known to his comrades as "Sea Level" Allen.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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