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Digital gallery of Pilot Officer John Menzies Ronahan
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Menzies Ronahan
This is Missing Memo 6254 dated 23 Mar 45. It lists all of the crew members of Stirling LJ 526, which was shot down over Denmark on the return trip from mining the Baltic Sea. The crew were buried secretly on the grounds of the German Barracks at Svenborg, on the Island of Funen. The bodies were not discovered until after the war when the Danes informed the Allied Graves Concentration Unit about them. For further information and pictures of this crash, please go to the Photo Album of Roderick Hugh Cameron.<P>
Source: Library & Archives Canada RG 24 Vol via R. Whitehouse
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This is Missing Memo 6254 dated 23 Mar 45. It lists all of the crew members of Stirling LJ 526, which was shot down over Denmark on the return trip from mining the Baltic Sea. The crew were buried secretly on the grounds of the German Barracks at Svenborg, on the Island of Funen. The bodies were not discovered until after the war when the Danes informed the Allied Graves Concentration Unit about them. For further information and pictures of this crash, please go to the Photo Album of Roderick Hugh Cameron.<P> Source: Library & Archives Canada RG 24 Vol via R. Whitehouse
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Pilot Officer John Menzies Ronahan as commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Pilot Officer John Menzies Ronahan is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … 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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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 431 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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SVENDBORG GENERAL CEMETERY Denmark
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