Irving Louis Sanitsky

[STAN54]

Can someone see it they find any information on Irving Sanitsky please.

Irving was a crew member of WW2 RAF Halifax bomber which crashed in North Essex U.K. in 1943.
The aircraft came down killing all of the crew on 25th Febraury 1943 at a place called Ardleigh in Essex. This is just outside the U.K.'s oldest recorded town of Colchester.

Irving was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force serving in the RAF.

He was the son of Simon and Ida Sanitsky of Fall River, Massachusetts. He was aged 22.

His burial place is The Jewish section of the Norwich cemetery in Norfolk U.K. at grave No. 235

His DOB is 8th May 1920.

On a 6.10.1940 RCAF document it shows his NOK as an uncle called:
Simon Swartz living on Washburn Avenue, Portland, Maine;

His father:
Simon Sanitsky, living on Third Street, Chelsea, Massachusetts;

and his mother Ida Rose living on Walnut Street, Chelsea Massachusetts.

Many thanks if anyone can find out more.

[shellyesq]

His birth record is here - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLGR-XS15

[shellyesq]

Looks like he might have shown up on the 1940 census in both Massachusetts and New York.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4NR-5B3

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQP3-8N4

[dbree]

Hi,

You can see his complete Canadian service file (with photo) through ancestry, no sub required.
Canada, WWII, Service Files of War Dead
https://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=9145

DB

[shellyesq]

His parents' marriage record - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLGT-GZSY

Possible matches for his father's WWI & WWII draft registration cards:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZJM-YW4

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V12G-F7P

[shellyesq]

Irving's mother applied for naturalization in 1938.  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XGW9-VZD  It looks like she was 10 Apr. 1895 in Fall River, Massachusetts, but because she married a foreign man prior a change in US law in 1922, she lost her US citizenship.  It says she was living with her husband & 2 sons and her husband came to Boston in 1909.

It looks like this is a death record for Irving's brother Sawyer:  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP2T-B8F 

Sawyer enlisted in the US Army not long before the end of the war:  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8LN-DFR

[dbree]

Hi,

He is listed on the Canadian Virtual War Memorial, came to Canada to enlist, Oct. 1, 1941
St. John, New Brunswick. His citations are listed, posthumously awarded RCAF Operational
wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy.
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2764253?Irving%20Louis%20Sanitsky

DB

[RJ137]

The Ottawa Journal
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Monday, March 08, 1943 - Page 19


Following is the latest list, of casualties with next of kin:
           OVERSEAS
   Killed on Active Service
..............
.............

SANITSKY, Irving Louis, Sgt., Mrs. Simon Sanitsky (mother), 17007 33rd  Avenue, Flushing, Long Island, N.Y.

[STAN54]

Thank you all for those marvellous bits of information which gives me something to work with.