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Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Photo of F/O O'Neill from records
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Letter from Mrs. O'Neil
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
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]
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
F/Lt.O'Neil was on his first operational sortie.
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Photo of F/O O'Neill from records
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Letter from Mrs. O'Neil
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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]
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F/Lt.O'Neil was on his first operational sortie.
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Lieutenant Harold Douglas O'Neil is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 408 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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