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Military service
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
No. 1 Fighting School
Death:
July 25, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
M. 7.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar
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Cenotaph
Dedication of memorial in North Portal, Saskatchewan, with his mother present, 1927 -
Photo of John David Dunbar
1917 -
Cenotaph
Memorial at Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland, where JD Dunbar died during combat training. Course was converted to an aerodrome during the war. -
Cenotaph
Memorial at Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland, where JD Dunbar died during combat training. Course was converted to an aerodrome during the war. -
Cenotaph
Memorial in North Portal, Saskatchewan, 2019 -
Temporary grave marker
JD Dunbar's first grave marker. -
Grave marker
JD Dunbar's present grave -
Photo of John David Dunbar
John David Dunbar, born Sept 3, 1897, in Wawanesa, MB, circa 1918 -
Record of Service
JD Dunbar's Royal Flying Corps Service Record, page 2. Note that his Occupation in Civil Life is listed as a student of Moose Jaw College, from September 1915 to June 1917. Moose Jaw College was founded in 1911 and closed in 1931. -
Memorial
Jessica Mundie visits the memorial to JD Dunbar (her great grand uncle) on the 100th anniversary of his death in World War One. -
Record of Service
JD Dunbar's Royal Flying Corps Service Record, page 1 -
Memorial
Commemorative stone for JD Dunbar at Trenton (Ont.) National Air Force Museum. Thomas How was a Wellington bomber tail gunner, and died in World War II. Two generations after their deaths Dunbar and How would be related by marriage (Catherine Lawrence and John Mundie.) -
Photo of Sopwith Dolphin, E-4437
Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar died in Sopwith Dolphin, E-4437; the wings folded up while diving at a raft firing target during aerial gunnery practice. He crashed in the sea, his body was not recovered. Model image of Sopwith Dolphin provided by his grand nephew John Mundie.
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John David Dunbar
GIRVAN (DOUNE) CEMETERY Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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