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Military service
Service number:
J/8814
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
December 30, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. D. Row 1. Grave 712.
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30.12.41 Miles M.9A Master I T8567 55 O.T.U. Usworth 407758 Sgt Leonard Douglas Wright RAAF pilot (K), J8814 P/O Arthur Raymond Kirby RCAF pilot (K) Aircraft was involved in a mid-air collision with Master N8076 and then crashed on the Ford Housing Estate, Sunderland, Co Durham. The occupants of the other Miles Master were also killed 14227 Sgt William Gilbert Bothe RAAF pilot (K), 407454 Sgt Peter Morphett Piggott RAAF pilot (K). By great fortune no one on the ground was even injured as one aircraft crashed into a street and the other crashed into the garden of a house -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star January 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Arthur Raymond Kirby
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Arthur Raymond Kirby
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Arthur Raymond Kirby
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Arthur Raymond Kirby
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Arthur Raymond Kirby
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Arthur Raymond Kirby
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Arthur Raymond Kirby
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Commemorated on:
Page 34 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HYLTON (CASTLETOWN) CEMETERY Durham, United Kingdom
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