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Forast Deloise Billingsley

In memory of:

Pilot Officer Forast Deloise Billingsley

August 17, 1944

Military Service

Service Number:

J/89270

Age:

24

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

405 Sqdn.

Additional Information

Son of Jame Lorin Billingsley and Edna Billingsley, of Cardston, Alberta, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 250 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

KIEL WAR CEMETERY
Germany

Grave Reference:

4. F. 12.

Location:

Kiel lies 83 kilometres north of Hamburg. From Hamburg visitors should travel north on the Autoroute 7, following signs for Kiel. Leave the A7 at the junction with the A215, still following signs for Kiel. The A215 ends on the outskirts of Kiel. Turn left at the end of the A215 onto the Westring following signs for Olympiazentrum and Flensburg. After 4 kilometres, the Nord Freedhof town cemetery will be seen on the left hand side of the road. The Commission plot is located 100 metres from the main cemetery entrance. Visitors should note that this cemetery is restricted to normal cemetery opening hours.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Pilot Officer Forast Deloise Billingsley is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Pilot Officer Forast Deloise Billingsley is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Pilot Officer Forast Deloise Billingsley is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Pilot Officer Forast Deloise Billingsley 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

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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
  • Photo of FORAST DELOISE BILLINGSLEY– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Photo of FORAST DELOISE BILLINGSLEY – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Kiel War Cemetery– Story of crash courtesy Air War Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com Lancaster III PB239 of 405 Sqn took off 21.15 Gransden Lodge on a mission to attack the port city of Kiel. It is believed that PB239 was claimed by a German night fighter and crashed in the North Sea south west of Denmark near the island of Sylt 17/8 1944 killing the whole crew. Today Pilot F/O Charles H. Fisher and W/OP WO1 Forest D. Billingsley rest in Kiel War Cemetery. Navigator F/L John S. Bruce RAF, Air Gnr. F/S Joseph W. Carter and F/L Maxwell B. Calhoun DFC have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. After about a week Air Bomber F/Lt Kenneth D. Kemp was washed ashore on the beach near Højer Sluse lock. The Germans left the body on the beach for 6-7 days before they buried it on the spot where it was found. On 9/1 1946 his remains were disinterred and taken to Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg where he was laid to rest on 10/1-1946. Flt. Engr. Sgt Eric N. Jolly RAF and Air Gnr. F/O Kenneth A. Nordheimer were found washed ashore on the island of Rømø and were laid to rest in Kirkeby cemetery on 7/9 1944.

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    Kiel War Cemetery
    Kiel War Cemetery – Story of crash courtesy Air War Over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com Lancaster III PB239 of 405 Sqn took off 21.15 Gransden Lodge on a mission to attack the port city of Kiel. It is believed that PB239 was claimed by a German night fighter and crashed in the North Sea south west of Denmark near the island of Sylt 17/8 1944 killing the whole crew. Today Pilot F/O Charles H. Fisher and W/OP WO1 Forest D. Billingsley rest in Kiel War Cemetery. Navigator F/L John S. Bruce RAF, Air Gnr. F/S Joseph W. Carter and F/L Maxwell B. Calhoun DFC have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. After about a week Air Bomber F/Lt Kenneth D. Kemp was washed ashore on the beach near Højer Sluse lock. The Germans left the body on the beach for 6-7 days before they buried it on the spot where it was found. On 9/1 1946 his remains were disinterred and taken to Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg where he was laid to rest on 10/1-1946. Flt. Engr. Sgt Eric N. Jolly RAF and Air Gnr. F/O Kenneth A. Nordheimer were found washed ashore on the island of Rømø and were laid to rest in Kirkeby cemetery on 7/9 1944.

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