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Fitzgerald, John Chisholm
R/88211
Flight Sergeant/ Air Gunner
15 RAF Squadron,
Royal Canadian Air Force
February 22, 1923
Halifax, NS
March 11, 1941
18
Halifax, NS
Halifax, NS
Student
Roman Catholic
Single
James O'Neill Fitzgerald (Father) Halifax
July 26, 1942
19
Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Plot: 16. H. 4.
Commemorated on Page 73 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on February 18
Flight Sergeant Fitzgerald was the son of James O'Neill Fitzgerald and Nina Helen
Fitzgerald, of Halifax, NS.
Having completed training at No. 6 Bombing and Gunnery School, RCAF Station Mountain
View, Ontario, he proceeded overseas in October 1941.
On July 25, 1942, while serving with 15 RAF Squadron, Flight Sergeant Fitzgerald was
killed when the aircraft (Stirling I W7576) flying out of RAF Wyton on air operations against
Duisburg, crashed at Horst, Holland. Two other crew members were also killed. Four were
taken as prisoners of war.
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