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Military service
Service number:
C/7735
Age:
35
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
405 Squadron
Birth:
November 25, 1908
Saint Anne's on the Sea, United Kingdom
Death:
February 24, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 3.
Additional information
Son of Henry Eastham, Regimental Number 110148, 5th Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment) died of wounds 20 December 1916 and Beatrice Anne Eastham deceased May 1941. Husband of Margaret Helen and father of Margaret June Eastham, of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Brother of Mrs. Joan Salisbury and Mrs Marjorie Macheau. Pilot Officer Eastham will be commemorated in the middle of the village of Bermering, France, at the spot of impact of a large piece of fuselage on July 4, 2004.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Defence Medal, General Service Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Operational Wings posthumously awarded 4 November 1946.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham
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Photo of Douglas Joseph Eastham and his fiancee
Douglas Eastham and his soon to be bride on June 4 1928 near Montreal. -
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Douglas Eastham, age 24, July 2 1934 near Montreal -
Photo 2 of Douglas Joseph Eastham
Formal portrait photo most likely taken for his position with the Bank of Montreal. Taken 1934. -
Group picture
Left to right FO Douglas G Eastham, mid upper gunner (KIA, Sgt. Stan 'Shorty' Kay, rear gunner (KIA), FO Basil Deleval 'Scotty' Jackson, pilot (POW), O G. A. 'Jack' Radford, Navigator (POW), PO R. H. 'Bob' Froebirger, bomb aimer (POW) -
Photo of Douglas Joseph Eastham
Failed to return from sortie February 24th, 1944. Crash site found five years later Bermeringen, France. -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham 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 -
Biography
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Burial Card
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Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Times Globe newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Telegraph Journal newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Joseph Eastham
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 298 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BERMERING (BERMERANGE) COMMUNAL CEMETERY Moselle, France
Bermering (or Bermerange) is a village some 45 kilometres south-east of Metz and 6 kilometres south-east of Morhange, a small town at the intersection of the N. 74. The communal cemetery is on the eastern side of the village, on the road to Benestroff.
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