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Military service
Service number:
R/79007
Age:
22
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
November 2, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 430.
Additional information
Son of E. C. Des Baillets and Helene Des Baillets, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Charles André Desbaillets
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Photo of Charles Desbaillets
Killed on an operational flight November 2nd, 1941 -
Cemetery
Commonwealth graves at St. Luke's Churchyard, Haverigg, Cumbria. (Photo Matthew Emmott) Sgt. (P) Des Baillets was killed Nov. 4, 1941, when Oxford aircraft AT48 crashed. It was flying out of #2 Air Observers School, Millom, near Haverigg. The Oxford was used to prepare complete aircrews for RAF's Bomber Command and as such could simultaneously train pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, gunners, or radio operators on the same flight. -
Memorial
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles André Desbaillets
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles André Desbaillets
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles André Desbaillets
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles André Desbaillets
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Charles André Desbaillets
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 28 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HAVERIGG (ST. LUKE) CHURCHYARD Westmoreland, United Kingdom
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