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Military service
Service number:
J/95491
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
424 Sqdn.
Death:
February 15, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 281.
Additional information
Son of George Earl Smith and Ona Pearl Smith, of Regina, Saskatchewan. Brother of Flight Sergeant George Earl Smith, Royal Canadian Air Force, missing presumed dead 13 July 1944.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith
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Letter
Letter to RCAF Casualty section from W/C Thompson<P> This letter explains the circumstances of the aircraft's disappearance over the Baltic Sea area. It was a Lancaster PB 899 flown by F/L F.C. Aldworth. The crew are listed in the letter. They were carrying 6 x 1500 lb mines.<P> Source:Library & "Archives Canada RG24 Vol 28243 (Miller, Kenneth A.) via R. Whitehouse -
Document
Report to Air Ministry confirming the lost of Lancaster PB 899 and its crew on the night of 14/15 Feb 45 from 424 Sqdn. It lists the crew by their position as well as service number.<P> Source:Library & "Archives Canada RG24 Vol 28243 (Miller, Kenneth A.) via R. Whitehouse -
Document
Crash Report from the Dutch research group Bomber Command Association who do searches of German and Allied records to find out what happened to missing Allied aircrews. Lancaster PB 899 disappeared without a trace. They found no records of it being shot down.<P> Source:Library & "Archives Canada RG24 Vol 28243 (Miller, Kenneth A.) via R. Whitehouse -
Photo of VERNON BEVERLEY SMITH
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of VERNON BEVERLEY SMITH
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Runnymede Memorial
A large arched window - the great north window - is engraved with the words from the 139th Psalm, sometimes called the Airman's Psalm - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens If I climb up into Heaven, Thou art there; If I go to Hell, Thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning And remain in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there also shall Thy hand lead me; And Thy right hand shall hold me. -
Inscription
Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Runnymede Memorial
April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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 Vernon Beverley Smith is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Vernon Beverley Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 565 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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