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Military service
Age:
33
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Calgary Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division:
14th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
February 18, 1909
Elgin, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 23. Column 2.
Additional information
Son of Lt.-Col. Warren Allan Andrews, V.R.D., and Nettie Marian Gilby Andrews, of St. Thomas, Ontario. Husband of Eleanor Catherine Andrews, of Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel John Gilby Andrews
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
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Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Inscription on Brookwood Memorial
Lieutenant Colonel John Gilby Andrews is one of 3 members of the Calgary Regiment, Royal Canadian Artilery Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram March 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram June 1943. 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 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Barrie Examiner c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel John Gilby Andrews
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel John Gilby Andrews
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel John Gilby Andrews
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 55 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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