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Military service
Service number:
J/21208
Age:
27
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
254 Sqdn.
Birth:
September 20, 1917
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 29, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 27, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 244.
Additional information
Son of William and Matilda McAleese of Toronto, Ontario.
Brother of Captain William Edward McAleese, who died while serving with the Fort Garry Horse.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese
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Press Clipping
Source: Globe and Mail January 3, 1945 -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Thomas McAleese
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Document
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 381 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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