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The London Gazette of 12th March, 1945, gives the following details:- One night in August, 1944, this officer was the navigator of a Wellington aircraft which was shot down into the Atlantic by a U-boat. Flying Officer Gray and three other members of the crew managed to extricate themselves from the aircraft. Despite a severe wound in the leg, Flying Officer Gray succeeded in inflating his own dinghy, and assisted into it his Captain, who had also been wounded. Cries were shortly heard from another member of the crew, who had broken his arm; Flying Officer Gray helped him also into the dinghy. Although suffering intense pain, Flying Officer Gray refused to get into the dinghy, knowing that it could not hold more than two persons and for some hours he hung on to its side, aided by one of its occupants and by the fourth member of the crew. In spite of increasing pain and exhaustion, he steadfastly refused to endanger his comrades by entering the dinghy, and eventually lost consciousness and died. When it become light his companions, realising that he was dead, were forced to let his body sink. Flying Officer Gray displayed magnificent courage and unselfish heroism, thus enabling the lives of his comrades to be saved. <P>1939-1945 Star,<BR> Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp,<BR> War Medal 1939-45.
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Newspaper Clipping
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From the Edmonton Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Runnymede Memorial
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Entrance
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Runnymede Memorial
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In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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George Cross
The cross was awarded for an act of the greatest heroism or of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger. It was intended primarily for civilians and award in the military services was confined to actions for which purely military honours were not normally granted and awarded for actions not in the face of the enemy. -
Inscription
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P/O R.B. Gray in July 1942 upon receiving his WAG insignia. -
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Biography
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From the Toronto Telegram March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Niagara Falls Evening Review November 14th 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray
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Page 321 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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