Booth Gordon Birchell

Monuments

Canada's Bomber Command Memorial Panels

ISOB Gordon B. Booth

Name:

Gordon Birchell Booth

Rank:

Flying Officer

Serial Number:

J/21469

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Date of Death:

1943-06-16

State:

Ohio

Cemetery:

Southam Road Cemetery, Banbury, Cherwell District, Oxfordshire, England

Plot:

Row:

Grave:

11644

Decoration:

Comments:

Gordon Birchell Booth was born on October 22, 1912, in Eaton, Weld County, Colorado. He was the son of Bert Booth and Jane Ann Doan Booth. He was the husband of Helen Edith Decker George.

Gordon enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force on September 6, 1941. He came to Findlay as a field man for the Great Lakes Sugar Company at the time of his enlistment. He was a member of Company I, Ohio State Guard when he was given an honorable discharge.

Flying Officer (Bomb Aimer) Booth graduated as a Sergeant Air Bomber on October 18, 1942, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and received his commission as a Pilot Officer on October 20, 1942. He was advanced to Flying Officer on May 20, 1943.

Serving in the #12 Operation Training Unit, he was Killed in Action on June 16, 1943, when his aircraft # Z 1721 was on fire and crashed and blew up at Edgehill, England.

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