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Military service
Service number:
40766
Age:
26
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
253 Squadron
Death:
September 4, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Row E. Grave 37.
Additional information
Son of George and Agnes Trueman. Husband of Ethel Mary Thorborn Trueman, of Lincoln.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Alec Albert Gray Trueman
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Photo of ALEC ALBERT GRAY TRUEMAN
From the Vancouver Sun. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Alec Trueman
Alec Trueman was intelligent and politically aware. Recognising the menace of Nazism as early as 1935, he trained as a pilot, and joined the RAF in 1938. My mother, Jane Bernard, was his girlfriend for five years. He was the love of her life. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription found on a family grave marker at Point de Bute Methodist Cemetery, Point de Bute NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD) -
Memorial
Sackville War Memorial. Sackville NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the St. John (New Brunswick) Times Globe newspaper c.1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 19 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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WHYTELEAFE (ST. LUKE) CHURCHYARD Surrey, United Kingdom
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