Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Cenotaph – Dedication of memorial in North Portal, Saskatchewan, with his mother present, 1927

Photo of John David Dunbar – 1917

Cenotaph – Memorial at Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland, where JD Dunbar died during combat training. Course was converted to an aerodrome during the war.

Cenotaph – Memorial at Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland, where JD Dunbar died during combat training. Course was converted to an aerodrome during the war.

Cenotaph – Memorial in North Portal, Saskatchewan, 2019

Temporary grave marker – JD Dunbar's first grave marker.

Grave marker – JD Dunbar's present grave

Photo of John David Dunbar – John David Dunbar, born Sept 3, 1897, in Wawanesa, MB, circa 1918

Record of Service – JD Dunbar's Royal Flying Corps Service Record, page 1

Record of Service – JD Dunbar's Royal Flying Corps Service Record, page 2. Note that his Occupation in Civil Life is listed as a student of Moose Jaw College, from September 1915 to June 1917. Moose Jaw College was founded in 1911 and closed in 1931.

Memorial – Jessica Mundie visits the memorial to JD Dunbar (her great grand uncle) on the 100th anniversary of his death in World War One.

Memorial – Commemorative stone for JD Dunbar at Trenton (Ont.) National Air Force Museum. Thomas How was a Wellington bomber tail gunner, and died in World War II. Two generations after their deaths Dunbar and How would be related by marriage (Catherine Lawrence and John Mundie.)

Photo of Sopwith Dolphin, E-4437 – Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar died in Sopwith Dolphin, E-4437; the wings folded up while diving at a raft firing target during aerial gunnery practice. He crashed in the sea, his body was not recovered. Model image of Sopwith Dolphin provided by his grand nephew John Mundie.