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Military service
Service number:
B/37326
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 20, 1917
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Enlistment:
September 30, 1939
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Joseph and Julia Flanagan, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Husband of Nancy Flanagan.
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Patrick Flanagan
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Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Inscription on Brookwood Memorial
Private Joseph Patrick Flanagan is one of seventeen members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry 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. -
Cenotaph
His name is listed on the Medicine Hat Cenotaph. -
Photo of JOSEPH PATRICK FLANAGAN
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Attestation paper
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Letter
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Letter
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Photo of JOSEPH PATRICK FLANAGAN
Nancye and Joe Flannigan Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
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Document
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Letter
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Document
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Letter
This is page 1 of the two-page letter my uncle wrote to his family on August 18, the day before the raid. -
Letter
This is page 2 of the 2-page letter my uncle wrote to his family on August 18, the day before the raid.
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Patrick Flanagan
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Patrick Flanagan
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Patrick Flanagan
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Patrick Flanagan
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Patrick Flanagan
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Patrick Flanagan
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Patrick Flanagan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 73 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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