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| Name: |
Irving, Arnold Earle |
| Date of birth: | August 14th, 1921 (Brome/Quebec, Canada)
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May 12th, 1944 (Aardenburg, the Netherlands)
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Commonwealth War Graves Aardenburg
Grave: 1-7. |
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Canadian |
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BIOGRAPHY:
Servicenumber J-19819.
Arnold Earle Irving, was born on August 14, 1921 in Brome, Quebec, Canada which is a small town located in the Eastern Townships region of the province of Quebec about 65 miles from Montreal, Quebec. When Arnold was a young boy his family moved to Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada which is where he was living when he joined the RCAF and that is where all the correspondence went to after his plane was shot down as his parents lived there. The 23-year-old Flying Officer Arnold Earle Irving was one of seven crewmen aboard Lancaster ND919. He served as the navigator. On the night of May 11, 1944, Lancaster ND919, along with 126 other Lancasters and six Mosquitos, flew out on a mission to bomb the railway network around Leuven in Belgium. The aircraft was shot down early on May 12, 1944 and crashed near Aardenburg which is a small town in the Netherlands not far from the Belgian border. Irving and the other six crew members of Lancaster ND919 were buried together in the Aardenburg Cemetery where their graves are still beautifully maintained to this day.
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MEMORIAL CROSS
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July 23rd, 1945
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Presented to Marjorie E. Irving, the mother of Arnold Earl Irving.
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