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Military service
Service number:
J/22026
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
429 Sqdn.
Death:
December 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 244.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
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Photo of HAROLD DOUGLAS O'NEIL
Photo of F/O O'Neill from records -
Letter
Letter from Mrs. O'Neil -
Runnymede Memorial
Runnymede Memorial for those with no known grave. F/Lieut. H. Doug O’Neil was 2nd Pilot on a mission to Osnabruck, Germany, December 6, 1944. It was his first operational sortie. Halifax bomber MZ 463 was airborne 1619 from the home base at Leeming, Yorkshire. Seven Halifaxes and one Lancaster were lost on this raid. The Halifax was lost without a trace being found. The crew members were: P/O (P) James M. Prentice, age 26, from Toronto, Ont. F/Lt (P) Harold D. O’Neil (2nd pilot), age 23, from Calgary, Alberta. P/O (BA) Stephen L. Norejko, age 24, from Montreal, Que. F/O (N) Thomas A. Wilson, age 25, from Swansea, Ont. P/O (FE) Edwin S. C. Clark, age 21, from Westmount, Que. P/O (AG) James C. Copeland, age 21, from Dundalk, Ont. P/O W. E. H. Barty, RAF Lt. F. M. McRoberts, USAAF is on the U.S. memorial to those with no known grave. [Sources: //lostbombers.co.uk; They Shall Grow Not Old, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba] -
Document
F/Lt.O'Neil was on his first operational sortie. -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 408 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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