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Military service
Service number:
J/85485
Age:
30
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
626 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
September 25, 1913
Boksburg, South Africa
Enlistment:
October 17, 1941
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
March 25, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
29. C. 9.
Additional information
Son of William Brown Gibson, and of Sarah Gibson, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer John Gibson
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Memorial
J. Gibson, a Postal Clerk in the Vancouver Post Office, is remembered on a memorial plaque in the Retail Lobby of the Vancouver Main Post Office, 349 West Georgia, Vancouver BC. -
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 John Gibson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer John Gibson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of John Gibson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
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Letter
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Letter
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Other
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.December 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Gibson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Gibson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Gibson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Gibson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Gibson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 315 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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