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Military service
Service number:
J/12487
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
May 25, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
10. A. 9.
Additional information
Son of Arthur Henry and Mabel Elizabeth Povah, of Ketown, British Colombia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant John William Bruce Povah
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Id Card
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Photo of JOHN WILLIAM BRUCE POVAH
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Photo of John William Bruce Povah
Photo of John Povah’s gravestone at the Khartoum CWGC taken by LCol Robert Chaloux while on a UN Peacekeeping Tour in 2005. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John William Bruce Povah
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John William Bruce Povah
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John William Bruce Povah
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John William Bruce Povah
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John William Bruce Povah
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 555 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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