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Military service
Service number:
J/95333
Age:
20
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
50 Sqdn.
Death:
March 14, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 280.
Additional information
Son of Joseph James Holmes and of Jessie Eleanor Holmes (nee McLean), of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes
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Letter from the Sydney Academy
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Photo of Angus Wharing Holmes
From the Sydney Academy Memorial booklet, published by the Student's Assembly in memory of former students who served during the Second World War. The original pictures were supplied by the Sydney Post-Record and the booklet was compiled by Jack Wilcox, class of 1946 and Donald Trivett, class of 1947.<p> Additional Information courtesy of Floyd Williston:<br> P/O Angus Holmes, age 20, was killed when a No.50 Squadron Lancaster (NG 177), in which he served as an air-gunner, crashed during a night raid on Lutzkedorf, Germany. There were no survivors and P/O Holmes' name is inscribed on the Runnymede War Memorial, Surrey, England. -
Press Clipping
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Press Clipping
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Commemorative Album Cover
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Commemorative poem
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Photo of ANGUS WHARING HOLMES
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ANGUS WHARING HOLMES
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ANGUS WHARING HOLMES
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes is also 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
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Angus Wharing Holmes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 525 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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