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Military service
Service number:
R/133826
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
160 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
October 26, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 430.
Additional information
Sqdn. Son of Edward and Sarah Margaret Gillespie; husband of Barbara Letitia Gillespie, of St. Vital, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Edward Bruce Gillespie
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Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of Edward Bruce Gillespie
Joined the Air Force in Toronto in 1942, and won his Wireless Air Gunner Wing. He was a member of the crew of a Liberator aircraft of #160 Burma Squadron based in Ceylon on October 26, 1943 when it failed to return from a mission. -
Photo of Edward Bruce Gillespie
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Edward Bruce Gillespie
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1946. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Bruce Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Bruce Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Bruce Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Bruce Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Bruce Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Bruce Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Bruce Gillespie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 163 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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