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Military service
Service number:
J/8202
Age:
21
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
420 Sqdn.
Birth:
May 31, 1922
Rapid City, Manitoba
Enlistment:
March 8, 1941
Death:
July 22, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave XVII. D. 1-10.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Harold and Dorothy Margaret East, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Brother of Laurence, Thomas, Mary and Dorothy East.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Ronald Clark East
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Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Keith Boswell, England.<P> The following Canadian crew members of 420 Sqdn were killed when their Wellington crashed in Italy. F/O (P) Ronald Clark East, age 21, from Winnipeg , MB F/O (N) James Adam Witherbee Melrose, age 32, from Dunnville, ON F.O (BA) Lloyd Henry Walton, age 22, from Sault Ste. Marie, ON F/O (WAG) Ernest Borden McCutcheon, age 25, from Barrie, ON -
Circumstances of Death
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of RONALD CLARK EAST
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
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 Ronald Clark East is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Ronald Clark East is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ronald Clark East
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ronald Clark East
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ronald Clark East
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ronald Clark East
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ronald Clark East
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ronald Clark East
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ronald Clark East
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ronald Clark East
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Ronald Clark East
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 156 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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