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Squadron Leader Jack Rife Beirnes

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Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)

Military service

Service number: C/13458
Age: 30
Rank: Squadron Leader
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 438 Sqdn (RCAF)
Birth: November 24, 1914 Birtle, Manitoba
Enlistment: April 13, 1940 Alberta
Death: June 1, 1945

Burial/memorial information

AABENRAA CEMETERY
Grave reference: Allied Mil. Plot. Row 6. 14.
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Son of Arthur Appleton and Nellie Mellis (nee Wood) Beirnes, of Tofield, Alberta. Husband of Gwendolyn (nee Firth) Beirnes, father of Gordon Donald Beirnes, of Edmonton, Alberta. Brother of Flight Sergeant Donald Wood Beirnes, killed in action near Malta on 4 January 1942.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 494 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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AABENRAA CEMETERY Denmark

Aabenra is in Jutland, on the main road from Germany into Denmark, about 24 kilometres north of the frontier. It is about 105 kilometres from the port of Esbjerg. AABENRAA CEMETERY is on the western side of the town. The 1939-45 Plot is on the left-hand side of the main path towards the rear of the cemetery.

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