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Military service
Service number:
J/9185
Age:
28
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
407 Sqdn.
Death:
September 6, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 2 Row 3 Grave 43.
Additional information
Son of John and Lillian Wilkes, of Riverside, Ontario, Canada.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 124 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY Nord, France
DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY is at the south-eastern corner of the town of Dunkirk, immediately south of the canal and on the road to Veurne (Furnes) in Belgium. The British War Graves Plot is divided from the main cemetery by a hedge, and is entered through the columns of the Dunkirk Memorial.
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