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George Royal Holyoke

In memory of:

Pilot Officer George Royal Holyoke

September 4, 1940

Military Service


Service Number:

42710

Age:

24

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Air Force

Division:

57 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Son of Richard Roland and Grace Cliff Holyoke, of Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Mrs. Holyoke was a member of the Remembrance Association, Silver Cross Women of Canada, Wheat City Chapter, Brandon, Manitoba.

Commemorated on Page 603 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

LOSSIEMOUTH BURIAL GROUND
Moray, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

Grave 1102.

Location:

Lossiemouth is a seaport town and coastguard station on the Moray Firth, some five miles due north of Elgin. The burial ground lies between the railway station and Spynie Canal, about a mile and a quarter from the railway station, and it contains war graves of both world wars. There was a Royal Air Force Station at Lossiemouth and when war broke out in 1939 there was already an Air Force plot in the burial ground. This was used for the majority of the service war burials, and only 23 are elsewhere in the cemetery. This plot lies to the right of the main entrance; the Cross of Sacrifice stands at the summit of a slope facing the graves. Inevitably there are a small number of pre-war Air Force graves among the war graves, and three men of the Royal Navy and one belonging to the Royal Canadian Navy who died after the war have also been buried here.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Biography– In memory the students of the University of New Brunswick who went to war and did not return. Submitted of the project, Operation Picture Me.
  • 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 George Royal Holyoke is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Pilot Officer George Royal Holyoke is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of George Royal Holyoke– Newspaper clipping from scrapbook of Thelma Crewdson, aunt of Joan Greene
  • Lossiemouth Burial Ground
  • Cross of Sacrifice
  • Grave Marker
  • Frederiction War Memorial
  • Inscription
  • Newspaper Clipping– Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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