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Military service
Service number:
C/1167
Age:
24
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
111 Sqdn.
Birth:
April 7, 1918
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
July 25, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 99.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Campbell William James Fernie
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Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2554 F/L Campbell William James Fernie (RMC 1936) He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, 111 Sqdn. He died on Jul 25, 1942. His name is listed on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Memorial Doll
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2554 F/L Campbell William James Fernie (RMC 1936) He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, 111 Sqdn. He died on Jul 25, 1942. His name is listed on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Stained Glass Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2554 F/L Campbell William James Fernie (RMC 1936) He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, 111 Sqdn. He died on Jul 25, 1942. His name is listed on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Memorial
2554 F/L Campbell William James Fernie (RMC 1936) He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, 111 Sqdn. He died on Jul 25, 1942. His name is listed on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, United Kingdom. Photograph by TWGPP Volunteer. -
Photo of Campbell William James Fernie
Campbell William James Fernie went to Royal Military College in Kingston where he used the middle name 'MacGillivray. RMC's 1939 class book lists him with this name, but in a pamphlet listing the line-up for an RMC versus University of Western Ontario rugby game, he is listed as 'Fernie, C.W.J.' He left RMC to join the Air Force. -
Photo of Campbell William James Fernie
Campbell Fernie at RMC, Kingston, circa 1939. -
Group Photo
Campbell Fernie's nickname was 'Butch'. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in April 1918, son of Mrs. M. C. Fernie. He was engaged to classmate Digby Rex Bell Cosh's sister, Beverley when he was shot down off Ostend and last seen alive in a dinghy in the North Sea. -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of CAMPBELL WILLIAM JAMES FERNIE
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Letter (1)
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Report
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Campbell William James Fernie
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Campbell William James Fernie
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Campbell William James Fernie
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Campbell William James Fernie
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Campbell William James Fernie
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Campbell William James Fernie
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Campbell William James Fernie
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Campbell William James Fernie
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Campbell William James Fernie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 73 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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