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Flying Officer Frank Vincent Breen

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Flying Officer Frank Vincent Breen Veteran

Birth
Toronto, Toronto Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Death
7 Oct 1943 (aged 24)
India
Burial
Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India Add to Map
Plot
9. D. 12.
Memorial ID
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354 RAF Squadron's Consolidated B-24 Liberator Mk. V #BZ887 aircraft had just taken flight when it suddenly crashed into the ground about 5 miles from its base at RAF Cuttack, Odisha, India, taking the lives of all nine airmen on board.

The casualties of this accident were-

RAFVR Flying Officer Charles Lionel MOODY,

RAFVR Sergeant Frederick James TROWER,

RCAF Flight Sergeant Harry Benjamin SIGEL,

RCAF Flying Officer William John FISHER,

RCAF Flying Officer Frank Vincent BREEN,

RCAF Flying Officer Edmund Holmes BULLIS,

RCAF Pilot Officer Stanley J. DUBOWSKI,

RCAF Flight Sergeant Herbert Ernest MILES and

RCAF Flying Officer William Keith REDMAN.


Military Service-

Rank: Flying Officer

Trade: Pilot

Service Number: J/21201

Force: Air Force

Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force

Division: South East Asia Command; General Reconnaissance 354 RAF Squadron


A bank teller (the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 18 Sept 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


Son of Simon and Mary (née Fitzgerald) Breen of Toronto.


Flying Officer Frank Vincent Breen is commemorated on Page 139 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.

He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.







354 RAF Squadron's Consolidated B-24 Liberator Mk. V #BZ887 aircraft had just taken flight when it suddenly crashed into the ground about 5 miles from its base at RAF Cuttack, Odisha, India, taking the lives of all nine airmen on board.

The casualties of this accident were-

RAFVR Flying Officer Charles Lionel MOODY,

RAFVR Sergeant Frederick James TROWER,

RCAF Flight Sergeant Harry Benjamin SIGEL,

RCAF Flying Officer William John FISHER,

RCAF Flying Officer Frank Vincent BREEN,

RCAF Flying Officer Edmund Holmes BULLIS,

RCAF Pilot Officer Stanley J. DUBOWSKI,

RCAF Flight Sergeant Herbert Ernest MILES and

RCAF Flying Officer William Keith REDMAN.


Military Service-

Rank: Flying Officer

Trade: Pilot

Service Number: J/21201

Force: Air Force

Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force

Division: South East Asia Command; General Reconnaissance 354 RAF Squadron


A bank teller (the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 18 Sept 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


Son of Simon and Mary (née Fitzgerald) Breen of Toronto.


Flying Officer Frank Vincent Breen is commemorated on Page 139 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.

He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.









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