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Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Albert James Radcliffe

In memory of:

Leading Aircraftman Albert James Radcliffe

October 20, 1943

Military Service


Service Number:

R/177668

Age:

21

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Additional Information


Son of John and Ethel Florence Radcliffe, of Rivers, Manitoba.

Commemorated on the St. Donat Memorial and RCAF Liberator III Memorial.

Commemorated on Page 205 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

ST. DONAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Quebec, Canada

Grave Reference:

Coll. Grave. Lot GE. 34.

Location:

The 24 Royal Canadian Air Force casualties were previously buried in the isolated grave site at nearby Black Mountain.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • 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 ALBERT JAMES RADCLIFFE– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who  have no known grave.
  • Memorial– Leading Aircraftman Albert James Radcliffe as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON
  • Newspaper Clipping– This newspaper clipping appeared in a 1946 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, Charlottetown, PEI. The airplane mentioned in the article was a Liberator aircraft # 3701 enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec. It crashed and burned on the west side of a foothill of Black Mountain in Quebec. There is a Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain that was erected in memory of the twenty four gallant lads who lost their lives there.
  • St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery
  • Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain– A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians.
  • Close-Up of Memorial Plaque
  • Photo of Albert J Radcliffe

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