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Military service
Service number:
R/67907
Age:
20
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
408 Sqdn.
Birth:
August 17, 1921
Chatham, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 25, 1940
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
July 22, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot E. Row 3. Grave 8.
Additional information
Son of Harry Beverley Pleasence and Betty Pleasence, of Chatham, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence
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Memorial
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence as 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 -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands<P> Hampden aircraft AT139 was airborne 2341 21Jul42 from Balderton. and crashed in the Waddenzee. Three bodies were recovered. F/S (AG) Pleasence, age 20, and F/S (P) Robt. Wishart, age 21, are buried in the Harlingen General Cemetery, Frisian Islands, Friesland, Holland. P/O T. R. Ashton, RAF, is buried at Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery. The body of F/Sgt (N) R. S. Doherty, age 21, was unrecovered and he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial for those with no known grave. -
Cemetery
Harlingen General Cemetery, Friesland, Holland<P> (Courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands) -
Grave marker
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Photo of John Beverly Pleasence
right before deploying to The Netherlands -
Photo of John Beverley Pleasence
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 107 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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