BERCUSON, Bernard
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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
- July 02, 1916
- Date of Death
- August 16, 1944
- Place of Burial
- Langeland Island, Denmark
- Cemetery
- Magleby Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 28
- Enlistment No.
- J-88065
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Pilot Officer Bernard Bercuson, of Calgary, Alberta, was killed on August 16, 1944, while participating in air operations. Pilot Officer Bercuson enlisted in the R.C.A.F. in 1941 and after training at Edmonton and Regina, graduated as a wireless air gunner from Guelph in 1943. He received further training on the west coast and proceeded overseas in December 1943. Pilot Officer Bercuson received his commission posthumously. Villagers from Magleby, Denmark, gave him a Christian burial, reporting him as a drowned fisherman. A wooden grave marker with the name “P. Bercusen” was erected after the liberation of Denmark and later replaced with a granite marker.
- 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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