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Military service
Service number:
R/76075
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
87 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
February 8, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 103.
Additional information
Son of Rainsford E. and Beatrice L. Keith, of Havelock, New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Sergeant John Rainsford Keith
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In 2014, the grade 11 Modern History students at Belleisle Regional High School continued to write biographies for soldiers from the local area who died during the First and Second World Wars. -
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Gravemarker
His grave at Colerne (St. John The Baptist) Churchyard, Wiltshire, England -
Photo of John Rainsford Keith
In memory of the employes from the Bank of Nova Scotia who went away to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John Telegraph Journal newspaper c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Sergeant John Rainsford Keith
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Sergeant John Rainsford Keith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Rainsford Keith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Rainsford Keith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Rainsford Keith
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Rainsford Keith
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Sergeant John Rainsford Keith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 86 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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COLERNE (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST) CHURCHYARD Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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