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Flying Officer Richard Gainford Askew

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Military service

Service number: J36378
Age: 21
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 69 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: March 12, 1923 Briercrest, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: October 29, 1942 Saskatchewan
Death: July 25, 1944 Overseas, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VIII. F. 22.
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Son of Edward and Mary Agnes Askew, of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 239 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

The town of Bayeux, in Normandy, lies 24 kilometres north-west of Caen. Bayeux War Cemetery is situated in the south-western outskirts of the town, on the by-pass Rue de Sir Fabian Ware.

Bayeux is an ancient and historic town of Normandy. Its cathedral was the seat of Bishop Odon, half-brother of William the Conqueror, who took part in the invasion of England; and in it is the tomb of an English soldier of the Hundred Years' War. Bayeux was the first French town of importance to be liberated from the Germans in June 1944.

On the opposite side of the road stands the Bayeux Memorial to 1,803 men of the land forces who died in the fighting in Normandy and in the advance to the River Seine, and have no known grave.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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