FLEURY Joseph Oscar Rolland

  • First Name(s):
    Joseph 
    Oscar 
    Rolland 
  • Surname:
    FLEURY
  • Service Number:
    J89447
  • Rank:

    Pilot Officer

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  • Air Force Unit:
    425 Squadron
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    11th February 1944
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Pershore Cemetery, Worcestershire, England, Plot R. Grave 98.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of John Henry and Ernestine Gallagher; husband of Evariste and Henriette Fleury, of Drummondville, Province of Quebec, Canada

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FLEURY Joseph Oscar Rolland Is Named On These Memorials

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Further Information About FLEURY Joseph Oscar Rolland

The following information on the crash was taken from a website that is no longer online:
11/02/1944 Halifax LW395 KW-O of 425 Squadron suffered an engine failure, the pilot lost control and the aircraft broke up on pulling out of the dive. Crashed at Hanbury. Pilot F/Sgt J G D Aubin RCAF, navigator F/Sgt H B Mitton, WO/AG Sgt W E Dubroy RCAF, bomb aimer F/Sgt J H Y Albert RCAF, A/G Sgt J F Mayville RCAF, WO/AG Sgt J O R Fluery and F/Eng Sgt J J Shanahan all died. Also lost was passenger J L Dubroy, brother of Sgt W E Dubroy.

Sergeant Rolland Fleury (as written in the register), age 23, serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force was buried in unconsecrated ground in Pershore Cemetery on 16th February 1944.  The ceremony was performed by the Reverend J.M. Laplente.

Register of Burials in War Graves in Pershore Cemetery courtesy of Pershore Town Council.

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