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Military service
Service number:
J/35788
Age:
22
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
404 Sqdn.
Death:
February 9, 1945
Norway
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
British Plot. F. 15.
Additional information
Son of Willard R. and Edna C. Myrick, of Tillsonburg, Ontario. Brother of Pilot Officer John Frederick Myrick, Royal Canadian Air Force, killed in action on 11 August 1942.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Philip Rex Myrick
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Photo of Philip Myrick
Photo of Pilot Philip Rex Myrick and his Navigator Claude Berges. -
Photo of Phillip Myrick
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Group photo
Photo taken in Scotland end of October 1944 at 132 East Fortune, near Edinburgh, O.T.U Training Unit.<P> Top Row: 3rd from left ¿ P/O Claude Berges<BR> Pilot Officer (Navigator) Claude Gerald Berges J/95209, age 25, son of Eugene and Edith Berges, husband of Hilda Mary Berges, of Quebec City<BR> Second Row: 3rd from left - F/O O. W. Knight, Hugh Lynch and F/O Rex Myrick<BR> Flying Officer (Navigator) Oswald Wellington Knight J/36373, age 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Knight; husband of Doreen B. Knight, of Saskatoon and Vancouver, B.C.<BR> Flying Officer (Pilot) Hugh Charles Lynch J/35785, age 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Lynch, Mallorytown, Ontario.<BR> Flying Officer (Pilot) Philip Rex Myrick J/35788, age 22, son of Willard R. and Edna C. Myrick, of Tillsonburg, Ontario<BR> -
404 Sqdn Beau fighter
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Memorial
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Memorial
This memorial is located in Norway. -
Biography
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Biography (Page 2)
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Photo of Jack Myrick
Photo of brother, P/O Jack Myrick, Wireless Air Gunner on Halifax aircraft shot down in the sea off Denmark August 11, 1942. He is buried in Fourfelt Cemetery, Denmark. Courtesy of sister Betty Myrick Russell. -
Cemetery
(photographer Arthur Toppe, Norway; courtesy of Peter Smee, England) -
Photo of PHILIP REX MYRICK
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of PHILIP REX MYRICK
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Grave marker
CWGC Headstone Haugesund Cemetery -
Haugesund (Rossebo) Var Frelsers Cemetery.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Rex Myrick
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Rex Myrick
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Rex Myrick
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Rex Myrick
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Rex Myrick
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Rex Myrick
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Rex Myrick
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Rex Myrick
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Rex Myrick
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 549 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HAUGESUND (ROSSEBO) VAR FRELSERS CEMETERY. Norway
The War Graves plot is maintained by the Municipality of Haugesund and the Cross of Sacrifice stands in a central position. The plot contains 44 graves, 9 of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The majority of the graves were concentrated here at the end of hostilities from nine out-lying places around this area.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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