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Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Arthur Louis Sedgwick
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Photo of Arthur Louis Sedgwick
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Group Photo
Arthur Louis Sedgwick - RCAF Group Photo (Mr. Sedgwick is first on the left in the second row) -
Newspaper Clipping
This clipping appeared after Arthur Sedgwick was reported misssing in action (November 18, 1943) -
Letter
Excerpt from letter sent from Arthur Sedgwick to his brother William on October 6, 1943: "I suppose you are wondering what it is like flying over here and I can tell you it's pretty exciting and also very grim. As we are on the night shift, we see very little of the country, but there is more than enough to keep us busy when the searchlights cone us and shrapnel is bursting around us and night fighters are constantly on our tail. Indeed it's not a very pleasant business at all and believe me you are lucky you are not in it. I could put those planes you used to fly in between the wheels of the one I'm flying. It seemed funny at first to be sitting twenty feet off the ground but I soon got used to it." -
Letter
Letter from the RCAF to Arthur Sedgwick's mother, November 1947. Sedgwick was the only member of his crew that did not survive. It was learned later that he had stayed at the controls of his Halifax Bomber as it was going down, buying enough time for the others to bail out. -
Baby Picture of Arthur (colorized)
Baby Picture of Arthur (colorized) -
Photo of ARTHUR LOUIS SEDGWICK
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ARTHUR LOUIS SEDGWICK
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
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Document
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Letter
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Letter
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Letter
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Photo of ARTHUR LOUIS SEDGWICK
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Arthur Louis Sedgwick is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Arthur Louis Sedgwick is 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 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Arthur Louis Sedgwick
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Arthur Louis Sedgwick
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 212 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany
The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.
There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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