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Military service
Service number:
J/10890
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
424 Sqdn.
Birth:
May 20, 1920
Vancouver, British Columbia
Enlistment:
March 1, 1941
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
July 29, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. C. 24.
Additional information
Son of William Russell Taylor and Sybil Taylor, of Parksville, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Finlay Russell Taylor
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Memorial
This hall was built by local citizens including some First World War veterans and was dedicated in a ceremony on 11 November 1922. Mrs. Sybil Taylor, the mother of one of the dead, unveiled the plaque located inside the hall in November 1971. -
War Memorial
This hall was built by local citizens including some First World War veterans and was dedicated in a ceremony on 11 November 1922. Mrs. Sybil Taylor, the mother of one of the dead, unveiled the plaque located inside the hall in November 1971. -
Memorial
Flying Officer Finlay Russell Taylor is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Finlay Russell Taylor 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
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Finlay Russell Taylor
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Finlay Russell Taylor
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Finlay Russell Taylor
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Finlay Russell Taylor
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Finlay Russell Taylor
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Finlay Russell Taylor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 219 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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