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Son of Ross and Elsie E. Johnson, of Westmount, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Photo courtesy of The Memory Project.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Four pilots of 438 Squadron in 1943: P/O R.E. Johnson on the wing and, from left to right, F/O R.F. Reid, F/O H.E. Dawber and F/O R.M. McKenzie. Johnson and McKenzie were killed in action on July 15th, 1944, and July 18th, 1944.
National Defence Image Library, PL 22802.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Photo courtesy of Nicolas Paquin.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Photo taken in July 2015 when 438 squadron members paid respects at multiple grave sites of fallen members of 438 squadron RCAF in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Ross Eveleigh Johnson memorial stained glass memorial window (1945) by Charles William Kelsey is in the Mountainside United Church, 687, av Roslyn, Westmount, Quebec. Mountainside was formerly known as St. Andrew's-Dominion Douglas United Church. http://www.mountainsideunited.ca/
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson courtesy McGill University archives
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson obit Montreal Gazette Jul 20 1944 courtesy McGill University archives
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Ross E. Johnson with his Hawker Typhoon in the spring of 1944.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Temporary Grave Marker for Johnson. LAC Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Photo courtesy of The Memory Project.
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Four pilots of 438 Squadron in 1943: P/O R.E. Johnson on the wing and, from left to right, F/O R.F. Reid, F/O H.E. Dawber and F/O R.M. McKenzie. Johnson and McKenzie were killed in action on July 15th, 1944, and July 18th, 1944. National Defence Image Library, PL 22802.
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Photo courtesy of Nicolas Paquin.
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Photo taken in July 2015 when 438 squadron members paid respects at multiple grave sites of fallen members of 438 squadron RCAF in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Ross Eveleigh Johnson memorial stained glass memorial window (1945) by Charles William Kelsey is in the Mountainside United Church, 687, av Roslyn, Westmount, Quebec. Mountainside was formerly known as St. Andrew's-Dominion Douglas United Church. http://www.mountainsideunited.ca/
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The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens)
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The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
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Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson courtesy McGill University archives
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Flying Officer Ross Eveleigh Johnson obit Montreal Gazette Jul 20 1944 courtesy McGill University archives
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Ross E. Johnson with his Hawker Typhoon in the spring of 1944.
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Temporary Grave Marker for Johnson. LAC Ottawa
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 346 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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