Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of John Harvey Wilson and Sarah Wilson, of Parkman, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Thomas Harvey Wilson
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Photo
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Identification
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Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Wilson Bay
Wilson Bay named in Honour of Thomas Harvey Wilson. -
Temporary grave marker
The Original Grave Marker at Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire. -
Photo of Thomas Harvey Wilson
RCAF Flying Officer -
Grave marker
Grave Marker at Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire -
Document
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
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Photo of Thomas Harvey Wilson
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Medal
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Service Book
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Thomas Harvey Wilson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Thomas Harvey Wilson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 481 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HARROGATE (STONEFALL) CEMETERY Yorkshire, United Kingdom
The town cemetery is on the south east side of Harrogate, Yorkshire. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's plot is in the southern part of the cemetery. To reach the cemetery from Harrogate, go along the Harrogate/Wetherby road (A661) to the junction with the A59. The cemetery is signposted at this junction.
This cemetery contains war graves of both world wars. The large majority of the war burials occurred during the 1939-45 War. Nearly all are airmen, two-thirds of them belonging to the Canadian forces. Many of these men died in the Military Wing of Harrogate General Hospital. Of the many airfields established in Yorkshire during the War, a number were situated in the vicinity of Harrogate. Such were the R.A.F. station at Harrogate itself, and those at Linton-on-Ouse, Tockwith, Rufforth and Marston Moor. Nearly all the Canadians buried here belonged to No. 6 (R.C.A.F.) Bomber Group, whose headquarters were at Allerton Park.
All the stations controlled by this Group were in the area north of Harrogate in the Vale of York, the largest base having its headquarters at Linton-on-Ouse. During the early months of the war a piece of land was set aside by the local authorities for service war burials near the north-west corner of the cemetery. This group of war graves is in Sections 20E and 21E within the northern boundary. In July 1943 the Air Forces Section was opened at the north-eastern corner of the cemetery, where men from airfields in Yorkshire and the north-eastern counties were brought, most of whom died in the great bomber offensive on targets in Germany.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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