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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
C/299
Age:
33
Rank:
Group Captain
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
March 24, 1911
Toronto
Death:
February 20, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Block Q. Lot 89. Centre.
Additional information
Son of William Frederick and Sada B. Corbett, of Presqu'lle Point; husband of Mary Catherine Corbett, of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Digital gallery of Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave marker
Grave site as it appeared in November 2002. St. James Cemetery is located on Parliament Street in Toronto. -
Photo 2 of Grave Marker
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Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2030 G/C Vaughan Bowerman Corbett DFC (RMC 1928) was the son of William Frederick and Sada B. Corbett, of Presqu'lle Point. He was the husband of Mary Catherine Corbett, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. He died on Feb 20, 1945. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was buried in the St James's Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario Block Q. Lot 89. -
Memorial Doll
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2030 G/C Vaughan Bowerman Corbett DFC (RMC 1928) was the son of William Frederick and Sada B. Corbett, of Presqu'lle Point. He was the husband of Mary Catherine Corbett, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. He died on Feb 20, 1945. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was buried in the St James's Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario Block Q. Lot 89. -
Memorial Stained Glass
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2030 G/C Vaughan Bowerman Corbett DFC (RMC 1928) was the son of William Frederick and Sada B. Corbett, of Presqu'lle Point. He was the husband of Mary Catherine Corbett, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. He died on Feb 20, 1945. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was buried in the St James's Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario Block Q. Lot 89. -
Memorial Stained Glass
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett, DFC studied at the Royal Military College of Canada in 1935. Alumni are remembered in memorial stained glass windows. -
Biography
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett courtesy McGill University archives. -
Photo of Vaughan Corbett
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett Toronto Star Oct 3 1942 courtesy McGill University archives. -
Newspaper clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star February 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett
Digital gallery of
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett
Digital gallery of
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett
Digital gallery of
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett
Digital gallery of
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett
Digital gallery of
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett
Digital gallery of
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett
Digital gallery of
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett
Digital gallery of
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman Corbett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 505 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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