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Son of John Leonard and Margaret Nixon, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Sergeant John Leonard Nixon
Image gallery
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Mr. Nixon Was in this same aircraft which my father John Hedrich who were both killed Feb. 29 1944.
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Mr. Nixon Was in this same aircraft which my father John Hedrich who were both killed Feb. 29 1944.
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Mr. Nixon Was in this same aircraft which my father John Hedrich who were both killed Feb. 29 1944.
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Mr. Nixon Was in this same aircraft which my father John Hedrich who were both killed Feb. 29 1944.
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This copy was taken from F/O John Hedrich's Navigators Log Book. The last entry.
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This copy was taken from F/O John Hedrich's Navigators Log Book. The last entry.
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This copy was taken from F/O John Hedrich's Navigators Log Book. The last entry.
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Mr. Nixon Was in this same aircraft which my father John Hedrich who were both killed Feb. 29 1944.
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Mr. Nixon Was in this same aircraft which my father John Hedrich who were both killed Feb. 29 1944.
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This picture is of Flying Officer John Hedrich. Was the Navigator in Halifax LW 366 which he and Mr. Nixon were killed in. In fact John Hedrich and Ron Cunnings the Bombardier went though the perspex nose and neither had chutes on at high altitude and were killed instantly.
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
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In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
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In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
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In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
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Sergeant John Leonard Nixon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Sergeant John Leonard Nixon 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
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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 405 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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