Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of James Profitt Tuplin and Catherine Tuplin; husband of Mary Sheila Tuplin, of Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
Additional Information courtesy of Floyd Williston:
P/O J. Tuplin collided in mid-air with a Halifax, NP796, piloted by F/O Bernard A. Boyd. The two aircraft were on the last major bombing raid of the Second World War (April 25, 1945) . There were no survivors. Six of the seven bombers lost in that raid on Wangerooge, were involved in mid-air collisions with Bomber Command aircraft. (Source: Through Footless Halls of Air: Stories of a Few of the Many Who Failed to Return, by Floyd Williston).
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin
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Photo of JAMES CHESTER TUPLIN
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Id Card
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Photo of JAMES CHESTER TUPLIN
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Photo of James Tuplin
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Inscription
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017, 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 -
Memorial
Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Chester Tuplin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 571 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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