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Military service
Service number:
J/18088
Age:
25
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
405 Sqdn.
Death:
July 25, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 27.
Additional information
Son of Sydney L. A. and Theodora K. Smyth, of Strasbourg Station, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Photo of Micheal Sydney Smyth
Possibly in London, England, date unknown -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Michael Sydney Smyth is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Michael Sydney Smyth is 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 -
Cemetery
Air crew plot in Ten Boer (Groningen) Protestant Cemetery. (Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.) F/O McCracken was a member of 408 Squadron, Pathfinder Force. Halifax HR864 was airborne 2146 25Jul43 from Gransden Lodge. Outbound, the aircraft was shot down by a night-fighter crashing at Ten Boer (Groningen) 12 km NE of Groningen, Holland. The crew are: F/O M.E.Tomczak; Sgt A.J.Wood; F/O A.P.McCracken; Sgt C.J.V.Kettley; Sgt E.K.White; F/S M.S.Smyth; F/O A.J.Sochowski was interned in Camp L3, PoW No.1649. (Source: www.lostbombers.co.uk) -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Pilot Officer Michael Sydney Smyth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Sydney Smyth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Sydney Smyth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Sydney Smyth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Sydney Smyth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Sydney Smyth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Michael Sydney Smyth
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 215 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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TEN-BOER-PROTESTANT-CEMETERY Netherlands
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