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Military service
Service number:
J/88290
Age:
23
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
429 Sqdn.
Birth:
September 21, 1920
Bender, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
May 5, 1942
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
August 1, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 5.
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Margaret Santo (1973 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother), of Bender, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Twin brother of Warrant Officer Class I Frank Robert Santo, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo
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Photo of JOHN ALEXANDER SANTO
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Cemetery
Photo courtesy Regis Biaux,France, and Pierre Vandervelden, Belgium, of www.inmemories.com On 31 July 1944, the crew of Halifax LV 950 was airborne at 2151 from their base at RAF Leeming on a mission to attack the V-1 Site at Couqereaux. They failed to return from the operation and crashed behind German lines. They rest together in a plot in the St-Martin-au-Bosc Communal Cemetery. They were: P/Os John R. Irish (P); John A. Santo (N); Hugh B. Gilmore (AG); P/O (AG) Gordon Lindensmith (AG) F/Os (WAG) Wm. J. Wright (WAG); John E. Gloeckler (BA) and RAF P/O Reg. T. Walsham (FE). -
Grave Marker
Photo of grave marker courtesy of Kelvin Youngs, Aircrew Remembered -
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 Alexander Santo is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Identification
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Photo of JOHN ALEXANDER SANTO
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Correspondence
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Photo of JOHN ALEXANDER SANTO
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 436 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. MARTIN-AU-BOSC COMMUNAL CEMETERY Seine-Maritime, France
St. Martin-au-Bosc is a village and commune 42 kilometres east-south-east of Dieppe, and 11 kilometres south of Blangy, where the Le Treport-Aumale-Paris road (N.15 bis) crosses the Rouen to Abbeville road (N.28). The cemetery is on the south-east side of the village, down a rough track, 600 yards from the church. Near, and south-east of the crucifix in the centre of the cemetery are the graves of 1 officer of the Royal Air Force and 6 officers of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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