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Military service
Service number:
R/54393
Age:
29
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
97 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
April 30, 1912
Woodlawn
Death:
April 17, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 6. G. 7-15.
Additional information
Husband of Cecelia Donoghue, of Glen Head, New York State,
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant John Granville Donoghue
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Memorial
Flight Sergeant John Granville Donoghue is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant John Granville Donoghue 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 -
Photo of John Granville Donoghue
University of Delaware, 1931, Blue Hen Yearbook, p68, John Granville Donoghue -
Newspaper clipping
01 May 1942, Rochester D&C, report of missing; obit for John G. Donoghue -
Attestation paper
RCAF application, page 1 -
Attestation paper
RCAF application, page 2 -
Award Citation
Commemorative certificate provided for those who fell in combat -
Certificate of presumption of death
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Packing list of personal effects for conveyance to next of kin
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Letter
Letter dated 17 June 1942 to next of kin regarding the fate of the decedent's aircraft. -
Circumstances of death registers
Province of Ontario certificate of death -
Photo of John Granville Donoghue
University of Delaware, 1931, Blue Hen Yearbook, page 68.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Granville Donoghue
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Granville Donoghue
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Granville Donoghue
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Granville Donoghue
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 70 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.
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