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Son of Haney and Abbie Watt, of South River, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Bruce Emmott Watt
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Bruce Emmott Watt
Image gallery
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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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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Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Sgt. Bruce Emmott Watt, posthumously promoted to the rank of Pilot Officer photographed with his earlier Service Number. He died when the 49th Sqd RAF Lancaster bomber crashed on the return from a raid on Plzen, Czekoslovakia early in the morning of April 17, 1943.
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Pilot Officer Bruce Emmott Watt is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Pilot Officer Bruce Emmott Watt 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
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From the Toronto Telegram December 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram December 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the North Bay Nugget. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 225 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Germany
Durnbach is a village 16 kilometres east of Bad Tolz, a town 48 kilometres south of Munich. Durnbach War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village Gmund am Tegernsee. Using the A8 from Munich, turn off at the junction Holzkirchen, taking the 318 road in the direction of Gmund am Tegernsee. At the crossroads with the 472, turn left in the direction of Miesbach. The cemetery is situated approximately 500 metres on the left from the 318/472 crossroads.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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