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Military service
Service number:
R/95411
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
418 Sqdn.
Death:
August 27, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 103.
Additional information
Son of Herbert Clarence and Barbara Ann Colter, of Crystal City, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant James Cecil Colter
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Photo of James Colter
Photo of FS Colter while at home (Crystal City, MB) while on leave prior to his deployment overseas. -
Photo of James Colter
FS Colter's official photograph taken prior to his deployment overseas. He failed to return from sortie, 28 August 1942. Sergeant R.J. Blenkarn and FS J.C. Colter were killed. 12 Bostons bombed Abbeville airfield, 4 Mosquitos to Holland and Germany. Bremen reports one Mosquito dropping 3 bombs and scoring a direct hit on the foundry of the Vulkan shipyard, which stopped production for several days. 1 Boston and 1 Mosquito lost. -
Newspaper clipping
announcement of news that he was MIA, published in the Winnipeg Free Press on 07 Oct 1942.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Cecil Colter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Cecil Colter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Cecil Colter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 65 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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