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Military service
Service number:
R/90867
Rank:
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber)
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
408 Sqdn.
Death:
April 17, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Mil. Plot. Row B. Coll. grave 1-4.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
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Photo of Francois Pilon
François Rolland Pilon. Photo published in the yearbook of Course 39, No. 4 Air Observer School, Crumlin, Ontario, 1942. -
Photo of Francois Pilon and Crew
Crew of EQ-X (408 Sqn): (L to R): Lloyd Haines, Tony Gielty, François Rolland Pilon, Ronnie Winter, Jacques Guay (kneeling) -
Francois Pilon's Journal
Last page of François Rolland Pilon's journal showing his three operational flights, prior to the ill-fated Pilsen raid of April 16/17, 1943 from which his bomber failed to return. -
Grave Marker
The grave marker of François Rolland Pilon. Photo taken by Jan Pilon of the Netherlands. -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of FRANCOIS ROLLAND PILON
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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 Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Francois Rolland Pilon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 203 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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