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Military service
Service number:
40483
Age:
21
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
263 Sqdn.
Death:
March 29, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. E. Grave 118.
Additional information
Son of Hugh and Avis Nettleton; nephew of Mrs. W. Nettleton, of Biddenden, Kent, England
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Patrick John Muriel Nettleton
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Newspaper Clipping
Source: Montreal Gazette April 2, 1940 -
Photo of PATRICK JOHN MURIEL NETTLETON
Photo of Patrick John Muriel Nettleton of Calgary, Alberta, Canada on his graduation day from the Royal Air Force College in Cramwell England September 30, 1939. Patrick was then commissioned to the RAF on Oct. 1, 1939 and posted to Squadron 263 RAF Filton near Bristol. Patrick was killed in active service in a mid air collision 12 minutes after taking off from Bristol England on March 29, 1940. He is buried at the Canford Cemetery in Bristol England. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Grave site of P/O Patrick John Muriel Nettleton Buried in Bristol Canford Cemetary, UK April 1940 Sec. E Grave 118 -
Photo of Patrick John Muriel Nettleton
Photo of Pilot Officer Patrick John Muriel Nettleton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 603 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRISTOL (CANFORD) CEMETERY Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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