Date: 25th November 1943
Unit: 1 Squadron R.A.F.
Type: Typhoon Ib
Serial No: JP592
Location: Martinvaast France
Pilot: Flying Officer James Wilson Wiley J/13479 (Age 24) R.C.A.F. (Killed)
Flying Officer James Wilson Wiley R.C.A.F. First temporary grave marker over James’s grave.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Took-off from R.A.F. Lympne on a cross-channel sweep over the Cherbourg Peninsula, hit by Flak from Martinvaast, aircraft was last seen going down in flames from 500 feet.
Newspaper cuttings relating to James’s wedding to Nadine Scott and notification of his loss (Sharon)
Burial Details:
Flying Officer James Wilson Wiley J/13479 (Age 24) R.C.A.F.
Buried at Cherbourg Old Communal Cemetery, Cherbourg-Octeville, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France. Plot 6. Row F. Grave 1.
James was born on the 5th January 1919, Plunkett, Saskatoon Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. The son of Frederick and Jessie Alwilda (nee Mosher) Wiley; of Viscount, Saskatchewan; husband of Nadine Evaline Wiley, of Arden, Ontario.
Grave Inscription: NOT JUST TO-DAY BUT EVERY DAY IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER
Compiled & researched by David King, Acknowledgments: Thanks to R.C.A.F. Records and “They Shall Not Grow Old”