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Military service
Service number:
R/104814
Age:
30
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
50 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
February 20, 1912
St. Sanibeher, Québec
Enlistment:
May 19, 1941
Montreal, Québec
Death:
February 5, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot E. Row C. Grave 7.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness
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Photo of NELSON EARL HOLNESS
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness 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 -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Nelson Earl Holness
19 OTU, RAF Kinloss, Course No.43 - July 1942 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Nelson Earl Holness
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 171 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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