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Military service
Service number:
R/176973
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
82 Operational Training Unit
Birth:
October 18, 1921
New Waterford, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
September 9, 1942
Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Death:
October 4, 1944
Badsey, Worchestershire, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
55. E. 8.
Additional information
Son of Silas and Elizabeth (nee Wilson)Thistle and brother of John, Edward, Raymond and Mary. Husband of Florence May (nee Hutchison) Thistle, of Scotch Town, Nova Scotia. Father of Marilyn and Florence.
Additional citations
Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
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Commemorative Cover
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Commemorative poem
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Newspaper Clipping
From a collection of newspaper clippings (album), donated to the Royal Canadian Legion Bernard Croak VC branch 003 by Shirley (Terrio) Green in memory of her mother Olive (Newell) Terrio. -
Grave marker
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Grave marker
Remembered with love and honour -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of FRANK ELEAZER THISTLE
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of FRANK ELEAZER THISTLE
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Photo of FRANK ELEAZER THISTLE
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Frank Eleazer Thistle
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 460 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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