BAUM, Hyman
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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
- April 15, 1918
- Date of Death
- June 20, 1942
- Place of Burial
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Cemetery
- Ottawa Memorial
- Age at Time of Death
- 24
- Enlistment No.
- R-77445
- Rank
- Flight Sergeant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flight Sergeant Hyman Baum, R.C.A.F., of Montreal, Quebec, was reported killed in active service in Canada (R.C.A.F. Casualty List No. 304) on June 20, 1942. While on a patrol flight the plane he was in was seen to crash into the sea off Digby Island in northern British Columbia. The aircraft disappeared almost immediately after it struck the water, trapping both Baum and the pilot. Enlisting in the air force in November 1940, Flight Sergeant Baum trained at Brandon, Calgary and Fingal, Ontario, where he graduated as a sergeant wireless air gunner. He was posted to the operational training unit at Debert, Nova Scotia, and then to the R.A.F. Ferry Command at Dorval. Upon Japan’s entry into the war, he was withdrawn from the R.A.F.F.C. and posted to No. 7 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron at Prince Rupert, British Columbia, for operational aircrew duties.
- 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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