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Military service
Service number:
R/95736
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
419 Sqdn.
Death:
October 5, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 20. C. 1-3.
Additional information
Son of James Leonard and Frances Genevieve O'Grady, of Brockville, Ontario, Canada.
Commemorated on the Brockville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School Roll of Honour.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Joseph Leonard O'Grady
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. 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
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands. Wellington aircraft of 419 Sqdn was lost when severe icing conditions were encountered on the way to the target, Aachen, Germany. Killed with F.Sgt. O'Grady were the pilot, WO2 Thomas Powell of Sarnia, ON; F.Sgt Howard Broom of Lansing, ON; F.Sgt. Guy McElroy of Kemptville, ON; and P/O Francis L. Todd from Cobalt, ON. (Source: They Shall Grow Not Old, published by the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, MB.) -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Joseph Leonard O'Grady is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Joseph Leonard O'Grady 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
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Joseph Leonard O'Grady
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Joseph Leonard O'Grady
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Joseph Leonard O'Grady
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Joseph Leonard O'Grady
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Joseph Leonard O'Grady
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Joseph Leonard O'Grady
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 103 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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