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Digital gallery of Flying Officer James Meyrick Larkin
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caption on back of photo: back row from left - Bagnell, Henderson, Jim Larkin, Stubbs; front row from left - John Liddell, Les Holden, Jack Burkitt, Tom Robson -
Runnymede Memorial
With permission from http://home.no.net/thsord/ Aircraft Crash Research in Southern Norway, by Thomas Sordalen<P> Halifax JP330 #58 Sqdn was on an anti-shipping, anti-submarine mission out of Stornoway on April 25, 1945. The bomber is believed to have been attacked by german fighters in the Skagerrak, and lost without a trace. Details received from F/Lt. Holden's son, Paul Holden. RCAF Crew were: Bur. Churchyard at Mandal, Norway F/L (P) Ernest Leslie Holden age 22 F/L (2ndP) John Alan Burkitt age 26 Commemorasted n Runnymede Memorial to the Missing: F/L (N) Thomas Claude Robson age 26 F/O (AG) James Meyrick Larkin age 30 F/O (AG) ohn Raymond Liddell age 20 F/Sgt. (AG) Alan Francis Juby age 19 F/Sgt. (BA) Kenneth George William Henderson age 19 -
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Meyrick Larkin
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Meyrick Larkin
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Meyrick Larkin
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 532 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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