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Military service
Service number:
41888
Age:
24
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
50 Sqdn.
Birth:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
August 15, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30.
Additional information
Son of James and Isabella Jane Whitecross, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Additional citations
Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
Digital gallery of Flying Officer James Alexander Whitecross
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Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Flying Officer James Alexander Whitecross is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer James Alexander Whitecross 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
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 615 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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