Person:Raymond Baroni (3)

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Winnipeg Free Press Thursday 23 December 1943 Doc B:33 page 5

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BOMBER GUNNER FOR R.A.F. reg. #196074 sgt.-Manitoba Geographical Names Prog lake on map 64P15, 15 deg 47' lat. 96 deg 46' long Baroni lake 27 Dec 1974 Surveys & Mapping Branch, 1007 Century Street,Winnipeg,Man. R3H 0W4 945-1798 duplicate placks $20.00 Canadian 23 June 1992. Doc B; 40 thru 44

BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY Country: Germany Locality: unspecified Visiting Information: There are 5 steps at the front of this cemetery. For wheelchair access via an alternative entrance, there is a private road next to the cemetery which leads to a TV Station and the back of our site. Should you wish to make use of this entrance, you will need to inform us in advance so our local staff can forewarn the TV Station. Please contact our Enquiries Section in the U.K on telephone number 01628 507200. Location Information: The Cemetery is in the district of Charlottenburg, 8 kilometres west of the city centre, on the south side of the Heerstrasse. From Theodor Heuss Platz in the district of Charlottenburg, near the exhibition hall complex and next to the Olympic Stadium, follow signs for Spandau, proceeding along the Heerstrasse. The Cemetery lies on the Heerstrasse on the left hand side of the road and 3 kilometres from Theodor Heuss Platz. Visitors should drive beyond the cemetery to the traffic lights, then turn left directly onto a small one way street running parallel to the Heerstrasse. The Cemetery entrance is on this small one way road. Historical Information: The site of Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery was selected by the British Occupation Authorities and Commission officials jointly in 1945, soon after hostilities ceased. Graves were brought to the cemetery from the Berlin area and from eastern Germany*. The great majority of those buried here, approximately 80 per cent of the total, were airmen who were lost in the air raids over Berlin and the towns in eastern Germany. The remainder were men who died as prisoners of war, some of them in the forced march into Germany from camps in Poland, in front of the advancing Russians. The cemetery contains 3,594 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 397 of them unidentified. In addition, there are 266 post war graves of men of the British Occupation Forces or their dependants, or of members of the Control Commission. * Leipzig, Konigsberg, Iena, Dresden, Halle, Rostock, Teltow, Wismar, Mittenwalde, Neuburzdorf, Magdeburg, Grunberg, Doberitz, Buchholz, Halberstadt, Blankenburg, Gotha, Tannenburg, Potsdam, Weder, Tessau, Stralsund, Schweren, Munsdorf, Brandenburg and Schonwalde. No. of Identified Casualties: 3468 Credits

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1.   Here is an interesting site, I have submitted the image#5 they cropped him out of the group photo, if you click the tumbnail it shows the whole photo.
   http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem