Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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

Memorial – Pilot Officer John Watt Lennox 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

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram February 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram June 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Barrie Examiner c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of John Watt Lennox – John Watt Lennox attended Brown Public School and North Toronto Collegiate. On graduation, attended Ontario Agricultural College (Guelph) (class of '43) until joined RCAF on May 5, 1941. Trained at Victoriaville and Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec. Graduated from Moncton, N.B. as Sergeant Pilot. Home leave until departure for England from Halifax in February 1942. He became a Commissioned Pilot Officer on January 21, 1943. John immediately went to Harrods, bought his uniform and had this picture taken. John was killed in action over Dortmund, Germany in the night of May 4-5, 1943 with RCAF Pathfinder Squadron 405 flying a Halifax II bomber from Gransden Lodge,Bedfordshire. When the family received John's personal effects, his mother, Fannie, gave his uniform to an English pilot who had received his commission in Canada but could not afford a uniform. However, she kept John's trench coat and wore it for a number of years. Family later received this letter: Dear Mr. & Mrs. Lennox. Frank, Addie, Frenchie and myself send you our deepest sympathy on the loss of your son John. It was solely due to his keeping our aircraft under control during great difficulties that we were able to bale out. As far as I can ascertain John is buried at Benthum in N.W. Germany. Yours sincerely, Austin Knight, German Prisoner of War Camp: Kriegsgefangenenlager July 12th 1943

Newspaper Clipping

Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me