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Thomas Baillie

In memory of:

Flying Officer Thomas Baillie

August 30, 1944
Anholt, Denmark

Military Service


Service Number:

J/18135

Age:

24

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

428 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Son of Matthew S. and Catherine O. F. Baillie, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 241 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

FALKENBERG FOREST CEMETERY
Sweden

Grave Reference:

Sec. III. 102.

Location:

Falkenberg is on the south-west coast in the district of Halland, 110 kilometres south of Gothenburg. FALKENBERG FOREST CEMETERY is situated in a woodland setting about 3 kilometres south of the town on the main road to Halsingborg. The war graves lie in a grass plot beside a flagged path, overshadowed by trees.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Flying Officer Thomas Baillie is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flying Officer Thomas Baillie is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … 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
  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Paying respects– The seven graves (two RCAF, five RAF) at the Forest Cemetary in Falkenberg  has been decorated every year at All Saints Day since 1954 by the local Lions Club in Falkenberg. One member, Stig Ringstrom (born 1913) has been participating every year since then. (The photo is from 2009)
Baillie's grave is the fourth from the right.
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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