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Military service
Service number:
R/107000
Age:
24
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 107.
Additional information
Son of Howard Clark Derrick and Violet Elizabeth Derrick, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; husband of Josephine Derrick, of Vancouver.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Melvin Ralph Derrick
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Memorial
M.R. Derrick, a Letter Carrier in the Vancouver Post Office, is remembered on a memorial plaque in the Retail Lobby of the Vancouver Main Post Office, 349 West Georgia, Vancouver BC. -
Memorial
Sergeant Melvin Ralph Derrick is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Melvin Ralph Derrick 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 -
Photo of Melvin Ralph Derrick
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Melvin Ralph Derrick
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Melvin Ralph Derrick
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Melvin Ralph Derrick
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Melvin Ralph Derrick
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Melvin Ralph Derrick
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Melvin Ralph Derrick
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Melvin Ralph Derrick
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 69 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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