The Pilot Officer Douglass Smith Kirkwood Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.
Douglass Smith Kirkwood was born in Calgary and attended Mount Royal College for five years before moving to Edmonton to receive a degree in Geology from the University of Alberta. Kirkwood was stationed overseas with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was part of the seven man crew of the Avro Lancaster LL960 HW-D plane from 100 Squadron which took off from Royal Air Force Station Grimsby, Country Lincolnshire, England, just before 11 p.m. on May 21, 1944. The plane was on its first mission as part of a large raid on the city of Duisburg, Germany, when it was hit in the bomb bay, exploded and went into an uncontrollable decent. Kirkwood was 22 at the time of his death.
