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Son of George and Mary Frances Nelson, of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Douglas Haig Nelson
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Haig Nelson
This memorial is located in a field near Shipley, England. The field that had once been an airstrip during the Second World War and at the edge of which trees had been planted with the names of airmen who had died, presumably flying from this field. Beside the trees were wooden poles on which were brass plaques with the names of the airmen who died. One of these was Douglas Haig Nelson, who went missing in action over France on April 26, 1944. Today the field is being used as a practice ground by polo ponies.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Haig Nelson
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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This memorial is located in a field near Shipley, England. The field that had once been an airstrip during the Second World War and at the edge of which trees had been planted with the names of airmen who had died, presumably flying from this field. Beside the trees were wooden poles on which were brass plaques with the names of the airmen who died. One of these was Douglas Haig Nelson, who went missing in action over France on April 26, 1944. Today the field is being used as a practice ground by polo ponies.
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From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 607 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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POIX-DE-PICARDIE CHURCHYARD Somme, France
Poix is a small town 28 kilometres south-west of Amiens. The 16th century church with its surrounding churchyard is on the Amiens-Rouen road, about 200 metres from the centre of the town and the British plot is opposite the west door of the church.
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