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Military service
Service number:
R/139278
Age:
22
Rank:
Leading Aircraftman
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
October 12, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XV. G. 12.
Additional information
Son of Jack and May Sykes, of Humberstone, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Leading Aircraftman John Edward Sykes
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Letter
letter to mother giving circumstances of her son's death. -
Burial report
report of burial of airmen killed by enemy bomb blast while performing their duties on air field. -
Circumstances of death registers
Ontario Death Registration -
Photo of JOHN EDWARD SYKES
RCAF photo -
Grave marker
photo courtesy of Des Philippet (G.E.Chase) -
Letter
Page one of a two page letter to John Sykes Mother, from N. M. Smith, Officer Commanding RCAF 416 Squadron, from John Sykes RCAF file with the National Archives in Ottawa. -
Letter
Page two of letter to John Sykes mother
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Edward Sykes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Edward Sykes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Edward Sykes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Edward Sykes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Edward Sykes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Edward Sykes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Edward Sykes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 457 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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