Flight Sergeant
Royal Canadian Air Force
62 Squadron (R.A.F.)
World War II
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 28
Enlisted in September 1940
Son of Mrs. Tillie Margolis of Calgary, Alberta
Prior to enlistment, he operated a delicatessen and was a member of the B'nai B'rith. "Sherry" Margolis trained as an observer and was posted overseas in July 1941 attached to the Royal Air Force. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was promoted to Flight Sergeant and transferred to India. He was posted at various action stations in the Pacific combat area.
According to an official announcement, he was reported missing after air operations and presumed dead on September 9, 1942. He was a crewmember on R.A.F. Hudson IV AE523 that failed to return from an attack on the port of Akyab, Burma, shot down by a Ki-43. P/O George Oliver Maughan DFM and Sgt Neil McNeil were also killed. Sgt Kenneth McKellar White survived and was taken as a POW.
Note: Veterans Affairs Canada website lists date of death as July 9, 1942. (Thanks also to Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives.)
He is also commemorated on the Cenotaph in the Jewish Cemetery and on the Roll of Honour at Crescent Heights High School, both in Calgary, Alberta.
Royal Canadian Air Force
62 Squadron (R.A.F.)
World War II
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 28
Enlisted in September 1940
Son of Mrs. Tillie Margolis of Calgary, Alberta
Prior to enlistment, he operated a delicatessen and was a member of the B'nai B'rith. "Sherry" Margolis trained as an observer and was posted overseas in July 1941 attached to the Royal Air Force. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was promoted to Flight Sergeant and transferred to India. He was posted at various action stations in the Pacific combat area.
According to an official announcement, he was reported missing after air operations and presumed dead on September 9, 1942. He was a crewmember on R.A.F. Hudson IV AE523 that failed to return from an attack on the port of Akyab, Burma, shot down by a Ki-43. P/O George Oliver Maughan DFM and Sgt Neil McNeil were also killed. Sgt Kenneth McKellar White survived and was taken as a POW.
Note: Veterans Affairs Canada website lists date of death as July 9, 1942. (Thanks also to Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives.)
He is also commemorated on the Cenotaph in the Jewish Cemetery and on the Roll of Honour at Crescent Heights High School, both in Calgary, Alberta.
Flight Sergeant
Royal Canadian Air Force
62 Squadron (R.A.F.)
World War II
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 28
Enlisted in September 1940
Son of Mrs. Tillie Margolis of Calgary, Alberta
Prior to enlistment, he operated a delicatessen and was a member of the B'nai B'rith. "Sherry" Margolis trained as an observer and was posted overseas in July 1941 attached to the Royal Air Force. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was promoted to Flight Sergeant and transferred to India. He was posted at various action stations in the Pacific combat area.
According to an official announcement, he was reported missing after air operations and presumed dead on September 9, 1942. He was a crewmember on R.A.F. Hudson IV AE523 that failed to return from an attack on the port of Akyab, Burma, shot down by a Ki-43. P/O George Oliver Maughan DFM and Sgt Neil McNeil were also killed. Sgt Kenneth McKellar White survived and was taken as a POW.
Note: Veterans Affairs Canada website lists date of death as July 9, 1942. (Thanks also to Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives.)
He is also commemorated on the Cenotaph in the Jewish Cemetery and on the Roll of Honour at Crescent Heights High School, both in Calgary, Alberta.
Royal Canadian Air Force
62 Squadron (R.A.F.)
World War II
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 28
Enlisted in September 1940
Son of Mrs. Tillie Margolis of Calgary, Alberta
Prior to enlistment, he operated a delicatessen and was a member of the B'nai B'rith. "Sherry" Margolis trained as an observer and was posted overseas in July 1941 attached to the Royal Air Force. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was promoted to Flight Sergeant and transferred to India. He was posted at various action stations in the Pacific combat area.
According to an official announcement, he was reported missing after air operations and presumed dead on September 9, 1942. He was a crewmember on R.A.F. Hudson IV AE523 that failed to return from an attack on the port of Akyab, Burma, shot down by a Ki-43. P/O George Oliver Maughan DFM and Sgt Neil McNeil were also killed. Sgt Kenneth McKellar White survived and was taken as a POW.
Note: Veterans Affairs Canada website lists date of death as July 9, 1942. (Thanks also to Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives.)
He is also commemorated on the Cenotaph in the Jewish Cemetery and on the Roll of Honour at Crescent Heights High School, both in Calgary, Alberta.
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