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Military service
Service number:
43043
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
66 Sqdn.
Birth:
May 28, 1918
London, Ontario
Death:
October 17, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot B.14. Grave 1271.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley
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Photo of Hugh William Reilley
On May 17, 1939 Reilley and his friend Robert M. Buchanan left Montreal on a freighter, for a vacation in Britain. When war was declared they joined the RAF. Reilly was flying a Spitfire with #66 Squadron in the defence of Britain when he was shot down on October 17, 1940. -
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Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … name on the panels that surround the Altar … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … the Altar … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Biggin Hill
Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Hugh William Reilley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 17 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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