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Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant John Gordon Holmes
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Gordon Holmes
Graduated as a Wireless Air Gunner at the Final Bombing and Gunnery School in May 1941 and arrived in England in June. His Wellinton bomber of #419 Moose Squadron was returning from a mine laying mission to Lorient, France when it crashed in bad weather.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Gordon Holmes
Flight Sergeant John Gordon Holmes is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Gordon Holmes
Flight Sergeant John Gordon Holmes is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Gordon Holmes
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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Graduated as a Wireless Air Gunner at the Final Bombing and Gunnery School in May 1941 and arrived in England in June. His Wellinton bomber of #419 Moose Squadron was returning from a mine laying mission to Lorient, France when it crashed in bad weather.
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Flight Sergeant John Gordon Holmes is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant John Gordon Holmes 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
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 82 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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UPAVON CHURCH CEMETERY Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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