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Son of Sidney M. and Harriet Eleanor Cole, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole
Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole
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
Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole
Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole
Nes General Hospital, Ameland, Frisian Islands, Holland<P>
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands)
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands<P>
Lancaster ED688 took part in the following Key Operations: As HW-A2, Dortmund 23/24May43; Dusseldorf 25/26May43; As HW-N, Dusseldorf 11/12Jun43; As HW-A, Bochum 12/13Jun43; Oberhausen 14/15Jun43; Cologne 3/4Jul43; Turin 12/13Jul43; Hamburg 24/25Jul43; Hamburg 27/28Jul43; Hamburg 2/3Aug43-Lost when shot down by a night-fighter crashing off the Dutch Frisian Islands. Sgt Cole is buried on Ameland in Nes General Cemetery; the others are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
(from //lostbombers.co.uk)
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole 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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Warrant Officer Frank Murray Cole is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Nes General Hospital, Ameland, Frisian Islands, Holland<P> Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands)
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Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands<P> Lancaster ED688 took part in the following Key Operations: As HW-A2, Dortmund 23/24May43; Dusseldorf 25/26May43; As HW-N, Dusseldorf 11/12Jun43; As HW-A, Bochum 12/13Jun43; Oberhausen 14/15Jun43; Cologne 3/4Jul43; Turin 12/13Jul43; Hamburg 24/25Jul43; Hamburg 27/28Jul43; Hamburg 2/3Aug43-Lost when shot down by a night-fighter crashing off the Dutch Frisian Islands. Sgt Cole is buried on Ameland in Nes General Cemetery; the others are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. (from //lostbombers.co.uk)
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From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 147 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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AMELAND (NES) GENERAL CEMETERY Netherlands
Ameland, one of the Frisian Islands off the north coast of the Netherlands, is some 15 kilometres from the mainland. Nes is the largest of the four villages on Ameland.
The AMELAND (NES) GENERAL CEMETERY is about 700 metres east of Nes, on the road to Buren. The British plot is in a prominent position immediately left of the entrance.
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