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Military service
Service number:
R/188236
Age:
22
Rank:
Leading Aircraftman
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
438 Sqdn.
Birth:
August 4, 1921
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 21, 1942
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 16, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. H. 9.
Additional information
Son of Alexander Brown Holmes and Deborah Elizabeth Holmes of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
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Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - August 2012 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery - August 2012 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave marker
While in France in May/05, went to Beny-sur-Mer cemetary and selected the grave of an RCAF soldier, J.S. Holmes, to place flag & poppy. (My father had been in RCAF in England during part of the war.) -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Id Card
Photo of ID card, LAC, Ottawa -
Temporary Grave Marker
Temporary grave marker, LAC, Ottawa -
Document
Findings from the Court of Inquiry, LAC, Ottawa -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Id card
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of JOHN SINCLAIR HOLMES
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 337 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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