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Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant James Anthony Sherry
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Grave Marker
Grave of Flight Lieutenant James Anthony Sherry at the Nederweert War Cemetery in the Netherlands. -
Memorial
Memorial for the crew of Lancaster ME647 in Eygelshoven NL. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of James Anthony Sherry
Flight Lieutenant James Anthony Sherry was a 22-year-old pilot from Windsor in Ontario and flew in the RCAF. His parents - James Sherry and Rose Anne McClusky - were both emigrants from Scotland. Sherry went to St Joseph Highschool and Assumption College in Windsor. He was quite musically educated because he played violin and piano and was also organist and choirmaster in the church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Windsor. In Camp Borden - about 90 km north of Toronto - he earned his 'wings' and at the end of September 1944 he was in England where he was assigned to the 166th RAF Bomber Squadron. After he was killed, he was first buried on the newly opened Margraten. From a letter dated May 10, 1945,, it appears that Sherry was initially buried at Margraten as X-68 - an unidentified person. Later he was identified and reburied at the Nederweert War Cemetery. He lies there in section IV, row A, grave 6.. Photo courtesy of Mrs. Di Ablewhite. -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant James Anthony Sherry is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant James Anthony Sherry is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of JAMES ANTHONY SHERRY
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of JAMES ANTHONY SHERRY
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 442 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY Netherlands
Nederweert is a village 38 km north west of Roermond, 21 km south east of Eindhoven and 5 km north east of Weert. The NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY is 150 metres west of the church and the same distance east of the road from Weert to Helmond. The entrance to the cemetery is closed to vehicles and visitors must walk the 50 metres to the Commission plot.
The NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY is signposted on the N266 Nederweert - Helmond road. The N266 is indicated from the Nederweert exit on the A2 Motorway Eindhoven Maastricht.
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