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Military service
Age:
22
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Division:
2nd Sqdn.
Enlistment:
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
December 24, 1916
England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B. 195.
Additional information
Son of J. B. Brophy, C.E., and Ella Brophy, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant John Bernard Brophy
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Roll of honour
Lisgar Collegiate yearbook 1919 -
Newspaper Clipping
Legion Magazine, gravestone renovation -
Roll of honour
Lisgar Collegiate honour roll -
War Diary
His WWI diary as an airman was reproduced as a book. -
Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Grave marker
Headstone of John Bernard Brophy in Gainsborough General Cemetery, Lincolnshire. Heastone states ¿Canadian Engineers & RFC Killed when flying on duty at Kirton Lindsay" -
Newspaper Clipping
Lt. John Bernard Brophy is mentioned in this newspaper article regarding deaths in the Royal Flying Corps of men from Ottawa, Ontario. -
Grave Marker
The restored headstones of Canadian RFC officers Lt. John Bernard "Don" Brophy and Lt. James Arthur Menzies. Restored by Trent Valley Academy and the Friends of Gainsborough Cemeteries in 2011. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
Page 1 of the Dec. 26, 1916 Ottawa Evening Journal. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Photo of JOHN BERNARD BROPHY
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Bernard Brophy
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Bernard Brophy
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Bernard Brophy
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Bernard Brophy
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Bernard Brophy
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Bernard Brophy
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Bernard Brophy
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Bernard Brophy
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant John Bernard Brophy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 570 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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GAINSBOROUGH GENERAL CEMETERY Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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