Military service
Service number:
J/14556
Age:
20
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
October 14, 1942
Cabot Strait
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 1. Column 4.
Additional information
Son of John A. Barrett and Ena Constance Barrett; husband of Marjorie R. Barrett, of North Vancouver, British Columbia. B.Sc. (Dalhousie University, Halifax).
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer John Hamilton Barrett
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Photo of John Hamilton Barrett
Commemorated at Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, United Kingdom, he is also commemorated at the Ottawa Memorial and the Bay of Islands War Memorial in Curling, Newfoundland. -
Bay of Islands War Memorial
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Plaque at the Bay of Islands War Memorial
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S.S Caribou
He died on board the SS Caribou on 14 October 1942 when it was sunk by a German U-boat. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Calgary Herald. 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 -
Newspaper clipping
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Document
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Letter
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
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Letter
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Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Memorial
Pilot Officer John Hamilton Barrett as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Letter
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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Hamilton Barrett
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Hamilton Barrett
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Hamilton Barrett
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Hamilton Barrett
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Hamilton Barrett
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Hamilton Barrett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 57 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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