Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of BRUCE WILBERT WEAVER – Photo courtesy of the Merrickville and District Historical Society

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star June 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Merrickville Remembers – This project was sponsored jointly by the Canadian Legion Branch 245 and the Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Serving on the Committee were Jack Jessop, Past President of Legion Branch 245; Joyce McKay, who lost a brother in the Second World War; Peter McKenna, Executive Director of Merrickville and District Community Health Centre; and Jack Wilcox, who upon discharge from the Canadian Army in 1945, prepared the Sydney Academy Memorial Booklet honouring the students of the Academy who gave their lives in the Second World War.

Memorial Page – Flight Sergeant Weaver is honoured on page 38 of the Merrickville Remembers booklet, published in January 2003.

Commemorative plaque

Newspaper Clipping – This photo of Sgt. Wireless Air Gunner Bruce W. Weaver is from the Nov. 23, 1942 Ottawa Journal.

Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The NetherlandsHudson AM 878 crashed while on an anti-shipping strike off the Dutch coast. FS Weaver was on his 3rd operation. The other crew members were: FSs D. S. Kennedy, E. G. Alexander; P/Os R. A. Draper, and E. D. Girardot.

Newspaper Clipping – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me