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Son of Frank and Eva Maud Milne, of Sherbrooke.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer John Riley Milne
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Riley Milne
This photograph and an accompanying article appeared in The Globe And Mail newspaper on Tuesday, 11 November 2003. The touching article, called "He was the world to someone", was written by Jonathan Vance. Circa 1973, when he was a young boy, Vance found this unidentified photograph in the bottom of a box of old books at a church rummage sale; he paid $0.10 for it.
Subsequently, a letter to the editor appeared in the same newspaper identifying the young airman in the picture as being John Riley Milne. It was from his sister, Joan (Milne) Brett who was living in Morris Island, Nova Scotia, at that time. She wrote that her brother had been flying a Hurricane in a low-level training exercise in Bagotville, Quebec, when he had been killed.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Riley Milne
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Riley Milne
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Riley Milne
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Riley Milne
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Riley Milne
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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This photograph and an accompanying article appeared in The Globe And Mail newspaper on Tuesday, 11 November 2003. The touching article, called "He was the world to someone", was written by Jonathan Vance. Circa 1973, when he was a young boy, Vance found this unidentified photograph in the bottom of a box of old books at a church rummage sale; he paid $0.10 for it. Subsequently, a letter to the editor appeared in the same newspaper identifying the young airman in the picture as being John Riley Milne. It was from his sister, Joan (Milne) Brett who was living in Morris Island, Nova Scotia, at that time. She wrote that her brother had been flying a Hurricane in a low-level training exercise in Bagotville, Quebec, when he had been killed.
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 395 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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SHERBROOKE (ELMWOOD) CEMETERY Quebec, Canada
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