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Military service
Service number:
J/9497
Age:
29
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant Navigator
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
424 Sqdn.
Death:
March 31, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 11. J. 3-5.
Additional information
Son of Clement and Mary Ella Digney, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. B.Sc., Chemical Engineering.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roderick Joseph Digney
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Photo of RODERICK JOSEPH DIGNEY
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of RODERICK JOSEPH DIGNEY
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Grave Marker
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Biography
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Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roderick Joseph Digney is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Roderick Joseph Digney 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 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Roderick Joseph Digney
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Commemorated on:
Page 291 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Germany
Durnbach is a village 16 kilometres east of Bad Tolz, a town 48 kilometres south of Munich. Durnbach War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village Gmund am Tegernsee. Using the A8 from Munich, turn off at the junction Holzkirchen, taking the 318 road in the direction of Gmund am Tegernsee. At the crossroads with the 472, turn left in the direction of Miesbach. The cemetery is situated approximately 500 metres on the left from the 318/472 crossroads.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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