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John Menzies Ronahan

In memory of:

Pilot Officer John Menzies Ronahan

April 23, 1944
Øster Skerninge, Denmark

Military Service


Service Number:

J/95100

Age:

35

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

149 East Indian Squadron

Additional Information


Son of William James and Maude Menzies Ronahan.

Commemorated on Page 431 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

SVENDBORG GENERAL CEMETERY
Denmark

Grave Reference:

Coll. grave K. 1.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Photo of JOHN MENZIES RONAHAN– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Pilot Officer John Menzies Ronahan as commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Pilot Officer John Menzies Ronahan is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of JOHN MENZIES RONAHAN– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Letter– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Letter– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Document– This is Missing Memo 6254 dated 23 Mar 45.  It lists all of the crew members of Stirling LJ 526, which was shot down over Denmark on the return trip from mining the Baltic Sea.  The crew were buried secretly on the grounds of the German Barracks at Svenborg, on the Island of Funen.  The bodies were not discovered until after the war when the Danes informed the Allied Graves Concentration Unit about them.  For further information and pictures of this crash, please go to the Photo Album of Roderick Hugh Cameron.

Source: Library & Archives Canada RG 24 Vol   via R. Whitehouse

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