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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/20136
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
411 Sqdn.
Birth:
March 13, 1922
Masinasin, Alberta
Enlistment:
August 26, 1941
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
March 3, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 278.
Additional information
Son of Paul and Edewisca Audet of Masinasin, Alberta. Husband of Iris Christina Audet, of Pinner, Middlesex.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Richard (Dick) Audet
Richard "Dick" Audet, 411 Sqn, RCAF, became an ace on December 29, 1944, when he shot down five enemy fighters in one day. He was flying his friend Jack Boyle's aircraft, DB-G (RR 201), according to the logbook. In this photograph, Audet is with his own aircraft, a Spitfire IX, DB-A (MK 950, coded R for a time), in which he was killed while strafing locomotives on March 3, 1945.<p> DND Photo PL 41719, Steve Sauve. -
Photo of Aircraft
Spitfire IX (flown by Flight Lieutenant Jack Boyle, DFC , of Burlington, Ontario in 411 Sqn, RCAF) similar to that flown by Richard "Dick" Audet. Audet was flying a Spitfire IX, DB-A (MK 950, coded R for a time) in 411 Sqn, in which he was killed while strafing locomotives on March 3, 1945. Note the 411 Sqn crest.<p> Drawing extracted from the book "Spitfire, The Canadians" by Robert Bracken. -
Photo of RICHARD JOSEPH AUDET
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Richard Joseph Audet
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
SETS NEW R.C.A.F. RECORD (The Windsor Star dated Jan 26, 1945) -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembered by ex members of 411 Squadron -
Memorial
Memory Bar for F/L R.J. Audet -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Bulletin March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Audet
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 492 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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