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Military service
Service number:
J/22396
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
622 Sqdn.
Death:
July 29, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 247.
Additional information
Son of Harold Albert and Helen E. Wray Peabody, of Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody
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Inscription
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial Entrance
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Harold Sherman Peabody
Pilot H. S. (Al) Peabody is flanked by fellow RCAF Flight Officers RL Fiddick (engineer, left) and JH (Harry) Doe (navigator, right). Their Lancaster Bomber (L7576) crashed at 0130 29 July 1944 in rural eastern France subsequent to a bombing run over Stuttgart. Three flight sergeants, A Payton, RG Prouix, and PW Buckley (not shown), were killed immediately and are interred in a local cemetary at Petitmont. A fellow RAF flight officer, GJ Wishart (not shown), was wounded and survived the war in a POW camp. Fiddick, with the aid of a local priest (Father Rohr) and members of the French underground, evaded capture and eventually returned to Canada. Peabody and Doe were caught by the Germans while walking along a road on 31 July 1944 and were never seen again. Peabody and Doe are counted with other missing Commonwealth airmen at the Runnymede Memorial (Surrey UK), Panels 247 and 245, respectfully. -
Memorial
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody 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 -
Photo of HAROLD SHERMAN PEABODY
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Attestation paper
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Group Photo
12 OTU, RAF ChippingWarden - January 1944
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Harold Sherman Peabody
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 413 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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