New Search
Photo Search
Audiovisual Search
Avrom Siegel in uniform
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 15; File 37; Item 18
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 15
- File
- 37
- Item
- 18
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1942
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 11 x 9 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Avrom Siegel was the fifth child born to Ida and Isidore Siegel in 1916. During the start of the Second World War, Avrom signed up for active service with the RCAF. He was told that the RCAF had too many navigators and was reassigned as a radar operator instead. He was sent to the Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario where he was educated in electricty and radio. He was then sent to a Royal Air Force radar training school in Clinton, Ontario. Once graduated, Avrom was stationed overseas in England with the operational radar wing of the RAF, known as the 72 Wing.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Avrom Siegel in uniform, standing in a garden.
- Notes
- Photograph is a Kodacolor print made by the Eastman Kodak Company.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Physical Condition
- The colour dyes of the photograph have faded over the years and have become various shades of mustard yellow.
- Accession Number
- 1988-2-13
- Source
- Archival Descriptions