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Military service
Service number:
J/85960
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
166 Sqdn.
Death:
February 20, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 253.
Additional information
Son of Wilbert Henry and Mary Estelle Yelland, of Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada; husband of Florence Irene Yelland.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland
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Photo of James Joseph Yelland
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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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 JOSEPH YELLAND
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Photo of JAMES JOSEPH YELLAND
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Service Book
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Attestation paper
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Attestation paper
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Joseph Yelland
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 484 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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