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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/15820
Age:
24
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
425 Sqdn.
Death:
April 15, 1943
Froidlieu, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 151-154.
Additional information
Son of Avila and Emilia Desroches. A commemorative ceremony was held at Mussey-Sur-Marne, France on 8 and 9 May 1993, honouring the 50th anniversary of the crash of Wellington X-3763.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Joseph Omer Leopold Desroches
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Flying Officer Joseph Omer Leopold Desroches is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Joseph Omer Leopold Desroches 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
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Omer Leopold Desroches
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Omer Leopold Desroches
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Omer Leopold Desroches
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Omer Leopold Desroches
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 153 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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