BUECHLER, Maurice Emanuel
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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, 1920
- Date of Death
- March 26, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Surrey, England
- Cemetery
- Runnymede Memorial
- Age at Time of Death
- 22
- Enlistment No.
- R-111658
- Rank
- Flight Sergeant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Emanuel Buechler was for official purposes presumed dead on March 26, 1943. He was reported missing after air operations over Germany on September 16, 1942, when the Lancaster aircraft of which he as an air gunner failed to return to its base. In a letter to his parents, his commanding officer said: “Your son was a keen and efficient air gunner, who was most popular with every one in the squadron. His loss is a great blow to us all.” Flight Sergeant Buechler came to Canada to enlist in the air force on September 17, 1941. He trained at St. Hubert, Valcartier, Victoriaville, Jarvis and Halifax. He was sent overseas in January 1942 and served for a time with the No. 9 R.A.F. squadron, fighting numerous battles over the channel and Germany. He received his promotion to flight sergeant on August 15, 1942. Flight Sergeant Buechler was injured while on operational duties and after recovery resumed his tour of operational flights. He was awarded his operational air wings posthumously on September 27, 1944.
- 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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