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Military service
Service number:
J/25605
Age:
27
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
150 Sqdn.
Death:
July 22, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 15, Column 2.
Additional information
Son of W. H. and Mary Lyon, of Thorndale, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Kenneth Brogden Lyon
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Photo of Kenneth Brogden Lyon
Lyon, Kenneth Brogden - Flying Officer. Born 26th January, 1918, at Londesboro, Ont. Educated at Blyth Public and Continuation School, and Clinton Collegiate Institute. Entered the service of the Bank 11th January, 1937. Served at branches in Ontario. Enlisted 20th June, 1942, from Forest in R.C.A.F. Pilot Officer in April, 1943; Flying Officer in January, 1944. Trained at Toronto, Camp Borden, Belleville and Malton, Ont. Overseas in June, 1943. Served in Italy and Eastern Europe. Reported missing on operational flight from Italy to bomb oil refinery in Bohemia on night of 2l/22 July, 1944. The aircraft crashed and exploded in Moravia and the body of only one of the crew was identified and buried. Officially presumed dead in August, 1945. <br><i>From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.</i> -
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Memorial
Flying Officer Kenneth Brogden Lyon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flying Officer Kenneth Brogden Lyon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Kenneth Brogden Lyon
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Kenneth Brogden Lyon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 370 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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