Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence as commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flight Sergeant John Beverley Pleasence 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

Photo of John Beverley Pleasence

Photo of John Beverly Pleasence – right before deploying to The Netherlands

Cemetery – Harlingen General Cemetery, Friesland, Holland (Courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands)

Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands Hampden aircraft AT139 was airborne 2341 21Jul42 from Balderton. and crashed in the Waddenzee. Three bodies were recovered. F/S (AG) Pleasence, age 20, and F/S (P) Robt. Wishart, age 21, are buried in the Harlingen General Cemetery, Frisian Islands, Friesland, Holland. P/O T. R. Ashton, RAF, is buried at Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery. The body of F/Sgt (N) R. S. Doherty, age 21, was unrecovered and he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial for those with no known grave.

Grave marker