In Memory Of
LAWRIE, GORDON
Service Details
Age:
27
Date of Birth:
1916-10-24
Service No:
102792V
Rank:
Captain
Unit:
31 Sqdn.
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1944-08-17
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW161, 7 crew (1 RAF and 2 RAFVR), shot down by Luftwaffe night fighter over Lysagora, southern Poland while en route to drop supplies to Polish Home Army Partisans, in Warsaw, Poland
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Coll. grave 1. D. 3.
Cemetery:
KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
Country:
Poland
Additional Information
Son of David Knox Lawrie and Amy Irene Lawrie; husband of Isabella Frances Travers Lawrie, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
