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Son of Francis Gordon Humphrey and Helen Ann Humphrey, of Jasper, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
Gordon F. Humphrey is honoured on page 34 of the <i>Merrickville Remembers</i> booklet, published in January 2003.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
This project was sponsored jointly by the Canadian Legion Branch 245 and the Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Serving on the Committee were Jack Jessop, Past President of Legion Branch 245; Joyce McKay, who lost a brother in the Second World War; Peter McKenna, Executive Director of Merrickville and District Community Health Centre; and Jack Wilcox, who upon discharge from the Canadian Army in 1945, prepared the Sydney Academy Memorial Booklet honouring the students of the Academy who gave their lives in the Second World War.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
Circumstances of crash. LAC Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
Investigation closed into location of Humphrey and Typhoon 1B JR148. LAC Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
LAC, Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
Witness report of death of Fred Humphrey, LAC, Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
Witness Report. LAC Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
Document indicating 'case closed', LAC, Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Humphrey
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Gordon F. Humphrey is honoured on page 34 of the <i>Merrickville Remembers</i> booklet, published in January 2003.
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This project was sponsored jointly by the Canadian Legion Branch 245 and the Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Serving on the Committee were Jack Jessop, Past President of Legion Branch 245; Joyce McKay, who lost a brother in the Second World War; Peter McKenna, Executive Director of Merrickville and District Community Health Centre; and Jack Wilcox, who upon discharge from the Canadian Army in 1945, prepared the Sydney Academy Memorial Booklet honouring the students of the Academy who gave their lives in the Second World War.
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Circumstances of crash. LAC Ottawa
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Investigation closed into location of Humphrey and Typhoon 1B JR148. LAC Ottawa
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LAC, Ottawa
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Witness report of death of Fred Humphrey, LAC, Ottawa
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Witness Report. LAC Ottawa
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Document indicating 'case closed', LAC, Ottawa
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 340 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."
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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