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Military service
Service number:
R/76122
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
102 Sqdn.
Death:
June 17, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 102.
Additional information
Son of Mr and Mrs Harry Conter of New Waterford , Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant David Conter
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Memorial
Mount Allison University, plaque honouring students who served, and died, in World War II -
Photo of DAVID CONTER
Mount Allison University, 1935 yearbook, University Graduates, Engineering (David's last name is spelled correctly on the Mount Allison plaque) -
Letter from the Sydney Academy
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Photo of David Conter
From the Sydney Academy Memorial booklet, published by the Student's Assembly in memory of former students who served during the Second World War. The original pictures were supplied by the Sydney Post-Record and the booklet was compiled by Jack Wilcox, class of 1946 and Donald Trivett, class of 1947.<p> Additional Information courtesy of Floyd Williston:<br> WO2 David Conter, age 28, was killed when his 102 Squadron Halifax R9530 failed to return from a June 16/17/1942 raid on Essen. One of his air-gunners was Sgt. David MacNeil Smith, age 22, of Halifax. Their names are inscribed on the Runnymede War Memorial. -
Photo of David Conter
David Conter is honoured on page 17 of the memorial book,<br> CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties,<br> compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948. <br> This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume. For additional information about these archival records, please contact:<p> The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives <br> 1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada)<br> telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 <br> facsimile: 514-931-0548 <br> website: www.cjc.ca -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Flight Sergeant David Conter is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant David Conter is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant David Conter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant David Conter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant David Conter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant David Conter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant David Conter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant David Conter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant David Conter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant David Conter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant David Conter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 66 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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