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Military service
Service number:
J190930
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
432 Sqdn.
Birth:
September 13, 1921
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
October 23, 1941
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death:
July 26, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 1.
Additional information
Son of Frederick and Jessie Giles of Red Deer Hill, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles
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Photo of James Reginald Giles
Born on 13 Sep 1921 1921-MacDowall,(Red Deer Hill) Saskatchewan, Canada to Frederick Giles and Jessie Penelope Baird. The other children were; Arnold Fredrick B: 17/02/1917 D: 14/06/1997 Robert Stanley “Stan” B: 02/11/1919 D:18/09/2011 James Reginald B: 21/09/1921 D: KIA 26/07/1944 Phyllis Irene B: 06/10/1923 D: Do not have exact date of death. The family farmed in the Red Deer Hill district. They were the second owners of land that had been homesteaded by their grandparents Robert and Agnes Giles in 1879. The land was farmed by Fred and then Arnold and Stan, and was sold out of the family in 1997. So the Giles family has a long history in Red Deer Hill. -
Breteniere Churchyard
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of JAMES REGINALD GILES
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles
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Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer James Reginald Giles
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 315 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETENIERE CHURCHYARD Cotes-d'Or, France
Breteniere is a village and commune 10 kilometres south-east of Dijon. The collective grave of British and Canadian airmen is to the right of the entrance.
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