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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/21297
Age:
24
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
October 20, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. Grave Lot GE. 34
Additional information
Son of George and Helen Sanderson, of London, Ontario; husband of Marie Sanderson, of London, Ontario.
Commemorated on the St. Donat Memorial and RCAF Liberator III Memorial.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson
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Photo of Stephen Andrew Sanderson
He enlisted in the RCAF on October 1940, gained his pilot's wings at Dunnville Service Flying Training School and instructed at Trenton and Aylmer RCAF stations. He was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1942 for meritorious service when he was involved in a crash landing at Alymer Air Station. He was posted to Halifax with #10 North Atlantic Squadron, Coastal Command flying Liberator Bombers. His aircraft failed to complete a flight from Gander NFLD to Dorval, Quebec. -
Newspaper Clipping
This newspaper clipping appeared in a 1946 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, Charlottetown, PEI. The airplane mentioned in the article was a Liberator aircraft # 3701 enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec. It crashed and burned on the west side of a foothill of Black Mountain in Quebec. There is a Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain that was erected in memory of the twenty four gallant lads who lost their lives there. -
St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery
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Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain
A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians. -
Close-Up of Memorial Plaque
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Photo of STEPHEN ANDREW SANDERSON
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Owen Sound Sun Times October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. -
Memorial
Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 210 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. DONAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY Quebec, Canada
The 24 Royal Canadian Air Force casualties were previously buried in the isolated grave site at nearby Black Mountain.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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