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Son of Henry J. M. and Verna L. E. Gloeckler, of Toronto, Ontario,
Digital gallery of Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
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Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Photo of grave marker courtesy of Kelvin Youngs, Aircrew Remembered
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Photo from RCAF record
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Letter to P/O Gloeckler's mother explaining how long the crew had been missing in action.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Photo courtesy Regis Biaux,France, and Pierre Vandervelden, Belgium, of www.inmemories.com
On 31 July 1944, the crew of Halifax LV 950 was airborne at 2151 from their base at RAF Leeming on a mission to attack the V-1 Site at Couqereaux. They failed to return from the operation and later word was received through the International Red Cross that the aircraft had crashed behind German lines and all the crew were killed. They rest together in a plot in the St-Martin-au-Bosc Communal Cemetery. They were:
P/Os John R. Irish (P); John A. Santo (N); Hugh B. Gilmore (AG); P/O (AG) Gordon Lindensmith (AG)
F/Os (WAG) Wm. J. Wright (WAG); John E. Gloeckler (BA) and RAF P/O Reg. T. Walsham (FE).
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Translation of letter written by Italian POW who helped bury the bodies of the crew of Halifax LV 950 in the
St. Martin-au-Bosc Communal Cemetery. He had found a letter from Miss DeLong, fiancee of P/O Gloeckler. in the pocket of his uniform and wanted to give her more detail of the crash. (page 1)
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Translation of letter written by Italian POW (page 2). A government interpreter also translated Miss De Long's reply to him.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
From the Toronto Star March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler
From the Toronto Star March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Photo of grave marker courtesy of Kelvin Youngs, Aircrew Remembered
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Photo from RCAF record
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Letter to P/O Gloeckler's mother explaining how long the crew had been missing in action.
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Photo courtesy Regis Biaux,France, and Pierre Vandervelden, Belgium, of www.inmemories.com On 31 July 1944, the crew of Halifax LV 950 was airborne at 2151 from their base at RAF Leeming on a mission to attack the V-1 Site at Couqereaux. They failed to return from the operation and later word was received through the International Red Cross that the aircraft had crashed behind German lines and all the crew were killed. They rest together in a plot in the St-Martin-au-Bosc Communal Cemetery. They were: P/Os John R. Irish (P); John A. Santo (N); Hugh B. Gilmore (AG); P/O (AG) Gordon Lindensmith (AG) F/Os (WAG) Wm. J. Wright (WAG); John E. Gloeckler (BA) and RAF P/O Reg. T. Walsham (FE).
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Translation of letter written by Italian POW who helped bury the bodies of the crew of Halifax LV 950 in the St. Martin-au-Bosc Communal Cemetery. He had found a letter from Miss DeLong, fiancee of P/O Gloeckler. in the pocket of his uniform and wanted to give her more detail of the crash. (page 1)
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Translation of letter written by Italian POW (page 2). A government interpreter also translated Miss De Long's reply to him.
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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 John Ernest Jack Gloeckler is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flying Officer John Ernest Jack Gloeckler is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 317 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. MARTIN-AU-BOSC COMMUNAL CEMETERY Seine-Maritime, France
St. Martin-au-Bosc is a village and commune 42 kilometres east-south-east of Dieppe, and 11 kilometres south of Blangy, where the Le Treport-Aumale-Paris road (N.15 bis) crosses the Rouen to Abbeville road (N.28). The cemetery is on the south-east side of the village, down a rough track, 600 yards from the church. Near, and south-east of the crucifix in the centre of the cemetery are the graves of 1 officer of the Royal Air Force and 6 officers of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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