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Adam Brown
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 Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: John Gillan, RAF, St John's Episcopal |
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Wing Commander John Woodburn Gillan DFC & Bar, AFC Memorial
Location:St John’s Episcopal Church, Junction of Lothian Road and Princes Street, Edinburgh
OS Ref: NT 247 736
Wing Commander John Woodburn Gillan DFC & Bar, AFC was the great grand nephew of the man commemorated on the memorial above his, Captain John Woodburn of the 44th Foot who was killed in Afghanistan in 1841 (and listed in another thread on this forum)
Wing Commander Gillan was lost over the English Channel in 1941. Here are his CWGC details
Name: GILLAN, JOHN WOODBURN
Initials: J W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Wing Commander (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Age: 34
Date of Death: 29/08/1941
Service No: 26010
Awards: D F C and Bar, A F C
Additional information: Son of the Revd. David Hedley Gillan, and of Helen Gillan (nee Drummond), of Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 2 Row 2 Grave 41.
Cemetery: DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY
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john burnett
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:09 pm Post subject: John Gillan, RAF, St John's Episcopal |
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