Leading Aircraftman Lawn, home for a short leave, tragically lost his life in a motor vehicle accident near Pembroke. A fellow airman, Leading Aircraftman John Patrick CARMODY, also home on leave, perished in this accident, too.
Earlier, in Jan 1942, LAC Lawn had been seriously injured in a Tiger Moth training aircraft accident in Manitoba.
Military Service-
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Trade: Pilot (Under Training)
Service Number: R/117259
Age: 27
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #14 Elementary Training Flying School (EFTS); RCAF Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
An elementary school teacher by trade, residing on Elm Street in Timmins, Ontario, Canada [permanent address was Christie Street in Pembroke, Ontario], he enlisted in the RCAF on 31 July 1941 in North Bay, Ontario.
Son of Michael Timothy and Mary Ann (née Sloan) Lawn of Christie Street in Pembroke [father born in Campbell Bay, Quebec; mother born in Vinton, Quebec].
Leading Aircraftman John Andrew Lawn is commemorated on Page 89 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Leading Aircraftman Lawn, home for a short leave, tragically lost his life in a motor vehicle accident near Pembroke. A fellow airman, Leading Aircraftman John Patrick CARMODY, also home on leave, perished in this accident, too.
Earlier, in Jan 1942, LAC Lawn had been seriously injured in a Tiger Moth training aircraft accident in Manitoba.
Military Service-
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Trade: Pilot (Under Training)
Service Number: R/117259
Age: 27
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #14 Elementary Training Flying School (EFTS); RCAF Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
An elementary school teacher by trade, residing on Elm Street in Timmins, Ontario, Canada [permanent address was Christie Street in Pembroke, Ontario], he enlisted in the RCAF on 31 July 1941 in North Bay, Ontario.
Son of Michael Timothy and Mary Ann (née Sloan) Lawn of Christie Street in Pembroke [father born in Campbell Bay, Quebec; mother born in Vinton, Quebec].
Leading Aircraftman John Andrew Lawn is commemorated on Page 89 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
(Epitaph...)
PER ARDUA AD ASTRA
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
R. 117259 L.A.C.
JOHN ANDREW LAWN
R.C.A.F.
7TH APRIL 1942
BORN 16TH FEB 1915
BELOVED SON OF MICHAEL LAWN AND MARY ANN SLOAN
R. I. P.
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