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Military service
Service number:
J/25874
Age:
24
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
24th Operational Training Unit
Birth:
February 7, 1920
Grand Prairie, Alberta
Death:
May 23, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave XXVII. G. 4-7.
Additional information
Son of James Cameron and Jessie Ann (née Webster) of Kaledon, British Columbia. Husband of Irene Buelah and father of Sharon Ann born 1 January 1944 of Kaledon, British Columbia. Brother of Mary and uncle of David Warner.
Additional citations
Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-1945, Operational Wings posthumously awarded 30 January 1947.
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F/O David Webster Goodwin Royal Canadian Air Force Air Gunner R/115064 Killed in action whilst on a leaflet dropping mission near Alenccon, France. The aircraft was shot down by German flack and crash landed at La Potence, near Sees, France. -
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Killed when Whitley bomber V701 shot down by flak on the night of May 22/23, 1944, near Sées, Normandy. -
Biography
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Document
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin
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Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer David Webster Goodwin
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Commemorated on:
Page 318 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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