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Son of Roy Charles and Agnes Loretta Irish, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Grave marker photo courtesy of Kelvin Youngs, Aircrew Remembered
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Photo of St. Martin au Bosc cemetery CWGC burial plot for aircrew courtesy of Regis Biaux, France, and Pierre Vandervelden, Belgium, www.inmemories.com
On 31 July 1944, the crew were airborne at 2151 from their base at RAF Leeming on a mission to attack the V-1 Site at St-Martin-au-Bosc with pilot Irish at the controls. The other Canadian crew members were P/O (N) John A. Santo; F/O (BA) John E. Gloeckler; P/O (AG) Hugh B. Gilmore; F/O (WAG) William J. Wright; and RAF P/O (FE) Reg. T. Walsham, from Hampshire.
They joined a force of 202 aircraft – 104 Lancasters, 76 Halifaxes and 22 Mosquitos – sent on an operation to attack two V-1 launching and two storage sites. One Halifax and one Lancaster were lost. (RAF record)
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Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Letter from Air Commission to 429 Squadron announcing the commission for pilot Banks was written on July 31, 1944, and received at 429 Squadron on August 2, 1944, two days after his death. The Squadron had not yet received word from the Germans that his body had been found at the crash site.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
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
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Found in service file. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Pilot Officer John Roy Irish
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Grave marker photo courtesy of Kelvin Youngs, Aircrew Remembered
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Photo of St. Martin au Bosc cemetery CWGC burial plot for aircrew courtesy of Regis Biaux, France, and Pierre Vandervelden, Belgium, www.inmemories.com On 31 July 1944, the crew were airborne at 2151 from their base at RAF Leeming on a mission to attack the V-1 Site at St-Martin-au-Bosc with pilot Irish at the controls. The other Canadian crew members were P/O (N) John A. Santo; F/O (BA) John E. Gloeckler; P/O (AG) Hugh B. Gilmore; F/O (WAG) William J. Wright; and RAF P/O (FE) Reg. T. Walsham, from Hampshire. They joined a force of 202 aircraft – 104 Lancasters, 76 Halifaxes and 22 Mosquitos – sent on an operation to attack two V-1 launching and two storage sites. One Halifax and one Lancaster were lost. (RAF record)
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Letter from Air Commission to 429 Squadron announcing the commission for pilot Banks was written on July 31, 1944, and received at 429 Squadron on August 2, 1944, two days after his death. The Squadron had not yet received word from the Germans that his body had been found at the crash site.
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Pilot Officer John Roy Irish is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Pilot Officer John Roy Irish is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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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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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Found in service file. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 342 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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