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Donald Joseph Cotter

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Donald Joseph Cotter

October 23, 1943

Military Service


Service Number:

R/125780

Age:

20

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

48 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.

Additional Information


Born:

August 22, 1923
Pembroke, Ontario

Enlistment:

September 8, 1941
Ottawa, Ontario

Son of John J. Cotter and Marie Cotter, of Pembroke, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 149 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

GIBRALTAR MEMORIAL
Gibraltar

Grave Reference:

N/A

Location:

The GIBRALTAR MEMORIAL commemorates, by name, 7 soldiers from the 1914-1918 War, and 84 airmen who died during the 1939-45 War, and were buried at sea. The Memorial stands in a triangular site west of the North Front Cemetery and close to the sea and consists of screen walls of local limestone carrying panels of Cornish granite on which the names are carved.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • 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– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of DONALD JOSEPH COTTER– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of DONALD JOSEPH COTTER– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star December 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Donald Cotter– Son of John James and Marie Cotter of Pembroke, Ontario.

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