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Military service
Service number:
J/85819
Age:
32
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
429 Sqdn.
Death:
February 20, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
8. E. 18.
Additional information
Son of Walter and Violet Gibbons; husband of Lorraine O'Donnell Gibbons, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons
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Biography
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Grave Marker
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … 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 -
Letter
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Photo of JAMES WALTER GIBBONS
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Group Photo
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Group Photo
F/L Stephen’s crew FTRed Leipzig 20 Feb 44. Front row L to R:, P/O Paul Alvin McIntyre (BA) age 23 RCAF killed, Sgt James Robertson Hamilton (WAG) age 34 RAFVR killed Back row L to R: Sgt Victor Earl Reed (MUG) age 21 RCAF killed, Sgt Ronald Francis Hawker (FE) RAFVR killed, P/O James Walter Gibbons (N) age 32 RCAF killed, WO2 Wilfred Harold Eugene Ostlund (RG) age 22 RCAF POW Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Walter Gibbons
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 314 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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