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Military service
Service number:
R/133280
Age:
24
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
35 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
May 24, 1918
Death:
April 16, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Mil. Plot. Row A. Coll. grave 3-6.
Additional information
Son of John Blake Martyn and Margaret Clark Martyn, of Haney, Maple Ridge, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant John Reid Martyn
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Flight Sergeant John Reid Martyn is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant John Reid Martyn is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of JOHN REID MARTYN
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Photo of John's mother. Photo was found in his military service file. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Reid Martyn
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Reid Martyn
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 187 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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LIESSE COMMUNAL CEMETERY Aisne, France
Liesse is a large village 15 kilometres north-east of Laon, on the Laon-Montcornet road. The LIESSE COMMUNAL CEMETERY is on the sourthern side of Liesse on the road to Marchais and St.Erme.
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