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Military service
Service number:
R/208472
Age:
20
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
August 20, 1923
Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Enlistment:
December 16, 1942
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 5, 1944
Letowicz, Poland
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
1. D. 5.
Additional information
Son of Norman and Margaret (nee O'Neil) Beanland. Brother of Harry, Norman and Betty.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, the 22 April 1947.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
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Inscription
Flight Sergeant CHARLES ALEC BEANLAND is comemmorated on a memorial erected in Confederation Park in Ottawa, Ontario by the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen’s Association in Canada in memory of the Canadian Airmen who fell over Poland while flying support missions during World War II. -
Dedication Panel
Upper and Lower Dedications -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Globe and Mail, September 9, 1944 -
Newspaper Clipping
Hamilton Spectator, August 15, 1944 -
Cemetery
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Cemetery
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Cemetery
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Cemetery
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Cemetery
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Photo of CHARLES ALEC BEANLAND
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Id Card
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of CHARLES ALEC BEANLAND
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Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Inscription
Plaque on the memorial in Poland with crew names and age including St. Ch Beanland -
Monument
Parts of Halifax airplane embedded into memorial. -
Monument
Monument erected by people of township of Wojnicz, Poland at the location of the crash where Ch A Beanland and his crew perished. -
Memorial
Polish Home Army - Canadian Airmen Memorial, Confederation Park, Ottawa.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Alec Beanland
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 245 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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KRACOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY Poland
Krakow is a large city in the south of Poland about 257 kilometres south-west of Warsaw on the main road 4. Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery, a large Military Cemetery which contains Polish, Russian and German graves as well as Commonwealth graves, is located east of the city. Follow the road 4 into the city and continue to the T junction at the end of the road 4. At this junction turn left along the road 7 (Al J Slowackiego) and follow this road round the town, then round a left hand bend and under the railway bridge where the road name changes to Al 29 Listopada. Take the first turning on the right after the bridge, called Prandoty, and the cemetery will be found along here on the left. The Commonwealth War Graves Plot is located through the entrance and to the left of the cemetery in the north-eastern corner of the burial ground.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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