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Military service
Service number:
J/28800
Age:
29
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
424 Sqdn.
Death:
July 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 2.
Additional information
Son of Earle Everton Van Alstyne and Marion Berenice Thompson Van Alstyne, husband of Margaret May Van Alstyne, of Meadowvale, Ontario.
Commemorated on the Brockville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School Roll of Honour.
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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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Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of PHILIP NAIRN THOMPSON VAN ALSTYNE
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Letter of recommendation
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Grave marker
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From the Toronto Star July 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Mr. VanAlstyne is honoured on the Churchville War Memorial -
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From the North Bay Nugget. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the North Bay Nugget. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne
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Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne
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Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne
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Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne
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Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne
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Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne
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Flying Officer Philip Nairn Thompson Van Alstyne
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 467 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOISSY-SOUS-ST. YON COMMUNAL CEMETERY Essonne, France
Boissy-sous-St. Yon is a village 28 kilometres south-south-east of Versailles, and 7 kilometres south-south-west of Arpajon. The cemetery is on the south side of the village at the end of a by-road leading from the road to the neighbouring village of Breuillet.
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