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Military service
Service number:
J/8146
Age:
34
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
439 Sqdn.
Birth:
October 5, 1909
Leeds, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
February 10, 1941
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
June 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 244.
Additional information
Son of William Saville, and of Florence Ilma Saville, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville
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Allied Airmen Memorial
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Allied Airmen Memorial
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Allied Airmen Memorial
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Inscription
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Photo of John Saville
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of John Saville
Photos, LAC, Ottawa. -
Letter
Letter to Mrs. Saville, from Commanding Officer of 439, S/L Norsworthy, LAC, Ottawa. -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c. 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 437 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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