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Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
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Cemetery
Rheinberg War Cemetery - May 2015 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Cross of Sacrifice - Rheinberg War Cemetery - May 2015 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Grave marker - Rheinberg War Cemetery - May 2015 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Entrance - Rheinberg War Cemetery - May 2015 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Entrance of Rheinberg Cemetery -
Cemetery Registry
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Grave marker
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Photo of Donovan Emmerson
Don Graduated from Western University in London . He and his friend Noble Tufford joined the cause(rid the World from Nazism).Don died 2 weeks before "D" day . He almost made it home. -
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Silver Cross Family Nov 5/06 . Step mother Merle was asked to Lay wreath but at 100 yrs of age she had to say No. Don's sister Ann Grimes laid the wreath on behalf of Donovan's family -
Photo of Donovan Derbyshire
Fearless? but laughingly he met the hun. -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire 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 -
Grave marker
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Photo of Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Service Book
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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donovan Emmerson Derbyshire
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 289 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany
The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.
There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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