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Melvin Osborne Orr

In memory of:

Pilot Officer Melvin Osborne Orr

November 29, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

J/95460

Age:

19

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

103 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information


Son of Charles Edward and Viola M. Orr, of Willow Cove, Ontario, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 409 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

2. K. 17.

Location:

Rheinberg is 24 kilometres north of Krefeld and 13 kilometres south of Wesel, in the locality of Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal. The cemetery is 3 kilometres south of the centre of the town of Rheinberg on the road to Kamp Lintfort. From the motorway 57, turn off at Rheinberg and at the T junction follow the 510 in the direction Kamp Lintfort. The cemetery is a short way along this road on the right.

The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.

There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Pilot Officer Melvin Osborne Orr is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Pilot Officer Melvin Osborne Orr 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 MELVIN OSBORNE ORR– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Group Photo– Melvin front row left. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Grave marker– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Identification– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of MELVIN OSBORNE ORR– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of MELVIN OSBORNE ORR– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Service Book– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Hamilton Spectator c.June 1945.......Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Melvin Orr– My Uncle Melvin Osborne Orr, in the bottom row, second from the left, died on Nov 29 1944, at the age of 19. He was a tailgunner in the R.C.A.F., 103 Sqdn.  He perished with the rest of the crew when it was shot down during a raid to Dortmund.
  • Gravemarker– Melvin's headstone 2006

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