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Military service
Service number:
J/18494
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
16 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
July 8, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 272.
Additional information
Sqdn. Son of Oswald James Thorpe and Mary Rosa Thorpe, of Welland, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Oswald James Thorpe
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Stained Glass Window
A stained glass window was erected at Trinity United Church, 4287 William Street, Beamsville, ON. This stained glass window depicting an Honour Roll, is dedicated to those veterans listed, lost during the First and Second World Wars. This memorial was unveiled in the 1940s. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [inscription/inscription] Honour Roll [left side/côté gauche] 1914 - 1918 [right side/côté droite] 1939 - 1945 [left column/colonne de gauche] C. Thompson C.W. Wilcox G.C. Read F.S. Albright R.R. Hobden C.C. Blunden [centre column/colonne de centre] H.H. Elliott G. Knight A. Lawrie C.J. Harshaw A.R. Hewitt J.D. Reid [right column/colonne de droite] R.L. Miln A.L. Logan J.B. Stallwood T.H. Page O.J. Thorpe http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=7916 Photo Credit: Derek Boogers
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Oswald James Thorpe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 220 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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