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Son of Charles Bramel and Doris Alexandrine (nee Stovel) Dolphin, Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Robert, Doris and Nancy. Husband of Mrs. Mary June Dunfield Williams (remarried widow) Glen Cove, New York.
1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Africa Star with Clasp, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
“ In memory of the former students from Blythwood Public School, Toronto, Ontario, who served during World War 11 and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.”
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
“ In memory of the former students from Blythwood Public School, Toronto, Ontario, who served during World War 11 and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.”
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
From the Montreal Gazette. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
This marker is located on the Cliffs of Magho overlooking Lower Lough Erne, west of Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. At nearby Castle Archdale, there is a museum dedicated to the squadrons, including Dolphin's 201, where several references to Dolphin can be found. My father, Malcolm N. Davies, trained with Dolphin. In Dolphin's memory, I was given Douglas as my middle name.
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Doug Dolphin, in the Middle East, September 1942
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
From the Toronto Star July 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
From the Toronto Star August 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
From the Toronto Star November 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
From the Toronto Star November 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Dolphin
From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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“ In memory of the former students from Blythwood Public School, Toronto, Ontario, who served during World War 11 and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.”
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“ In memory of the former students from Blythwood Public School, Toronto, Ontario, who served during World War 11 and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.”
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From the Montreal Gazette. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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This marker is located on the Cliffs of Magho overlooking Lower Lough Erne, west of Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. At nearby Castle Archdale, there is a museum dedicated to the squadrons, including Dolphin's 201, where several references to Dolphin can be found. My father, Malcolm N. Davies, trained with Dolphin. In Dolphin's memory, I was given Douglas as my middle name.
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Doug Dolphin, in the Middle East, September 1942
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From the Toronto Star July 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star August 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star November 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star November 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 154 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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