Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Id Card

Photo of JOHN ALEXANDER SANTO

Cemetery – Photo courtesy Regis Biaux,France, and Pierre Vandervelden, Belgium, of www.inmemories.com On 31 July 1944, the crew of Halifax LV 950 was airborne at 2151 from their base at RAF Leeming on a mission to attack the V-1 Site at Couqereaux. They failed to return from the operation and crashed behind German lines. They rest together in a plot in the St-Martin-au-Bosc Communal Cemetery. They were: P/Os John R. Irish (P); John A. Santo (N); Hugh B. Gilmore (AG); P/O (AG) Gordon Lindensmith (AG) F/Os (WAG) Wm. J. Wright (WAG); John E. Gloeckler (BA) and RAF P/O Reg. T. Walsham (FE).

Grave Marker – Photo of grave marker courtesy of Kelvin Youngs, Aircrew Remembered

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 John Alexander Santo is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Photo of JOHN ALEXANDER SANTO – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of JOHN ALEXANDER SANTO – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of JOHN ALEXANDER SANTO – John's mother. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Attestation paper – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Identification – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Correspondence – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Correspondence – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022