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Digital gallery of Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Eindhoven
On December 6, 1942, Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady, 21, pilot of Mosquito A-Apple on 139 (RAF) Squadron with his navigator, RAF Sgt. Geo. Lewis, 21, took part in the low-level daylight raid on the Philips electrical works in Eindhoven. While bombing a block of factories, the engine of the aircraft was hit by flak and was seen trailing smoke and flames as F/O O'Grady pulled away to head back towards England. They made it only as far as 30 miles off Den Helder, where they crashed into the sea. Their bodies were never found. -
Runnymede Memorial
The Runnymede Memorial for those with no known grave. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Earl O'Grady
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 103 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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