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In memory of:

Corporal Nora Johnson

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Military service

Service number: W/307410
Age: 30
Rank: Corporal
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force (Women's Division)
Division: 11 Sqdn.
Birth: February 10, 1915 Regina, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: September 2, 1942 Vancouver, British Columbia
Death: July 13, 1945 Near Bamfield, British Columbia

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 4 . Column 3.
Additional information

Daughter of Edward C. W. Johnson and Alice Mary Johnson, of Victoria, British Columbia.

A commemorative cairn was constructed and erected by the personnel of Canadian Forces Base Comox at the site of the July 13, 1945 crash of a Royal Canadian Air Force Liberator near Bamfield, British Colombia.

It bears a bronze plaque provided by the Canadian Agency of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The cairn stands at the site of the last resting place of the fourteen crash victims.

It was unveiled on August 10, 1983 by the Honourable W. Bennett Campbell, Minister of Veterans Affairs, in the presence of representatives of the families of the crash victims.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 528 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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Learning resources

Lesson Plan: Ages 12 - 18

Women and War

Lesson Plan: Ages 12 - 18

Women in the Canadian Military

 

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