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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/16089
Age:
28
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
November 8, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 4045.
Additional information
Son of Charles and Mabel Withington; husband of Marjorie N. Withington, of Kitchener, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
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Grave marker
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Preston Ontario Cenotaph
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Preston Ontario Wall of Remembrance Mural
Mural by D. Sopha. Located adjacent to the Preston Cenotaph. -
Document
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Photo of THOMAS DAVID WITHINGTON
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Document
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Document
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Letter
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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
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Memorial
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Thomas David Withington
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 125 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CEMETERY Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Startford-Upon-Avon Cemetery contains 22 First World War burials, made mainly from the hospital at Clopton House. During the Second World War, there was a contingent of the Royal Canadian Air Force based at nearby Wellesboune Mountford and of the 137 Second World War burials (most of them forming a war graves plot), 97 are of Canadian airmen. The cemetery also contains 15 war graves of other nationalities.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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