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Military service
Service number:
J/88134
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
405 City of Vancouver Pathfinder Squadron
Birth:
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Death:
August 17, 1944
Near Allindemagle, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 84.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
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Photo of Philip A. Musgrave
Philip A. Musgrave, Air Gunner, 405 Pathfinder Squadron. Killed August 17, 1944 over Denmark. Aircraft LQP was on the return leg of a bombing mission over Stettin harbour. Philip Musgrave is buried in Svino, Denmark. Phil was originally from Sydney, Nova Scotia. He will always be remembered! -
Air Crew Members
405 Squadron crew: (L-R) Philip A Musgrave (Air Gunner - killed in action August 17, 1944), Ross Wiens (Navigator); Ralph Rafter (Wireless Air Gunner); Bruce Durfee (Bomb Aimer); Denis Budd (Air Gunner); Jim Umschied (Flight Engineer); missing Bud Walter (Pilot) -
Air Crew Members (2)
405 Squadron crew (Back row) Bruce Durfee; Ralph Rafter; Denis Budd; Phil Musgrave; (Front Row) Jim Umshied; Ross Wiens; Bud Walter<br> August 1944, Granston Lodge England. -
Group Photo
Evaders return to Scotland September 1944. This photo was take at Leuchars Station. -
Photo of Philip Arthur Musgrave
From the Sydney Academy Memorial booklet, published by the Student's Assembly in memory of former students who served during the Second World War. The original pictures were supplied by the Sydney Post-Record and the booklet was compiled by Jack Wilcox, class of 1946 and Donald Trivett, class of 1947.<p> Additional Information courtesy of Floyd Williston:<br> P/O Phillip Musgrave, age 21, was killed on August 17, 1944, when Lancaster PA 988, was shot down six miles north-west of Ringstedt, Denmark. P/O Musgrave was an air-gunner with from No.405 Pathfinder Squadron, on a raid to Kiel, and, though he bailed out before the aircraft crashed, his parachute failed to open. Four of his crew escaped capture and made it to Sweden, and then back to the UK.. He is buried in the Commonwealth Memorial Cemetery, near Svino, Denmark. -
Letter from the Sydney Academy
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Press Clipping
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Press Clipping
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Commemorative Album Cover
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Commemorative poem
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Memorial
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave 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 -
Photo of PHILIP ARTHUR MUSGRAVE
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Photo of PHILIP ARTHUR MUSGRAVE
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Correspondence
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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 402 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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SVINO CHURCHYARD Denmark
Svino is small village in Southern Zealand, overlooking Dybso Fjord, some 90 kilometres south-south-west of Copenhagen. The British Plot is in an extension of the SVINO CHURCHYARD, to the north of the church.
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