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Military service
Service number:
40295
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
115 Sqdn.
Death:
April 7, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 8.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Roy Gayford
Roy Gayford was a close friend of my father, W/C Augustus Rodney Gibbes. He was to serve as Best Man at my parents wedding on 6th April 1940 but was sadly killed in action. My father was similarly lost in a bombing raid over Viterbo, Italy in 1943. The inscription on the rear of the photograph in my mother's hand states: "Roy Gayford Canadian Should have been Best Man 6 - 4 - 40 Killed in action." -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star April 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Allen Gayford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 603 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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