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Military service
Service number:
R/61464
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class I
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
489 Sqdn.
Death:
May 19, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 179.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class I Gerard Joseph McEachern
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Photo of Gerard Joseph McEachern
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Gerard Joseph McEachern
Courtesy of the Royal New Zealand Air Force museum collection. -
Photo of Gerard Joseph McEachern
Warrant Officer Class I Gerard McEachern of the RCAF, had finished his tour of duty and was supposed to be going home, but took one last flight as a favour for a friend who was too sick to fly. He was shot down over the North Sea that day, May 19, 1943. He never came home. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post April 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Gerard Joseph McEachern
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Gerard Joseph McEachern
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Gerard Joseph McEachern
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Gerard Joseph McEachern
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Gerard Joseph McEachern
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Gerard Joseph McEachern
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Gerard Joseph McEachern
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Gerard Joseph McEachern
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Gerard Joseph McEachern
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 190 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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