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Digital gallery of Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
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Inscription
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Letter from the Sydney Academy
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Photo of Donald Ian Smith
From the Sydney Academy Memorial booklet, published by the Student's Assembly in memory of former students who served during the Second World War. The original pictures were supplied by the Sydney Post-Record and the booklet was compiled by Jack Wilcox, class of 1946 and Donald Trivett, class of 1947.<p> Additional Information courtesy of Floyd Williston:<br> F/O Donald Ian Smith, 22, was killed on Christmas Eve, 1943, when his 612 Squadron Wellington HF177, crashed into the Bay of Biscay, while on a night anti-submarine patrol. There were no survivors and the names of F/O Smith, and his crew members, are inscribed on the Runnymede War Memorial, in Surrey, England. -
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Letter
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ian Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 214 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
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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