Military service
Service number:
R/264756
Age:
20
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
April 14, 1924
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
September 1, 1943
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
January 29, 1945
Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. G. Row F. Grave 11.
Additional information
Son of Joseph and Pauline Fitzgibbon of St. John's, Newfoundland.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
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Photo of Joseph Francis FitzGibbon
St. John's, Newfoundland -
A photograph of Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
A picture from the RAF Syerston archive of Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon -
Photo of JOSEPH FRANCIS FITZGIBBON
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Joe was remembered in this newspaper clipping in a local St. John's paper after he died during flying operations on January 29, 1945. -
Letter
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Memorial
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon 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 -
Memorial
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave marker
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Francis Fitzgibbon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 158 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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Page 514 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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