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Military service
Service number:
R/128741
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
434 Sqdn.
Birth:
April 27, 1922
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
September 2, 1941
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
September 27, 1943
The North Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 185.
Additional information
Son of Gerald Churchill and Ann O'Hara, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Brother of Flight Sergeant Gerald Churchill Patrick O'Hara, Royal Canadian Air Force, who died on 28 May 1943.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Basil Morgan O'Hara
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Photo of Basil O'Hara
O'Hara, Basil Morgan - Flight Sergeant. Born 27th April, 1922, at Moose Jaw, Sask. Educated at Kitsilano High School, Vancouver. Entered the service of the Bank 3rd July, 1940. Served at Vancouver city branches. Enlisted 30th August, 1941, from Kitsilano (Vancouver) in R.C.A.F. Promoted successively Sergeant and Flight Sergeant. Trained at Brandon, Man., and Winnipeg. Overseas in June, 1943. Attached R.A.F. Reported 28th September, 1943 missing after air operations. Officially presumed dead 7th November, 1944. <br><i>From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.</i> -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of BASIL MORGAN O'HARA
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Photo of BASIL MORGAN O'HARA
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Attestation paper
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Document
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Letter
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Letter
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Memorial
Flight Sergeant Basil Morgan O'Hara is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Basil Morgan O'Hara is 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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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Basil Morgan O'Hara
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Basil Morgan O'Hara
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Basil Morgan O'Hara
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Basil Morgan O'Hara
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 200 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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