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Military service
Service number:
R/54195
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
#20 Operational Training Unit
Birth:
June 27, 1920
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
July 18, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
May 6, 1942
Wellesbourne, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 4180.
Additional information
Son of Walter Edward and Maude Deacon (nee Rankin) Blue, of Ottawa, Ontario.
As a former member of The Royal Ottawa Golf Club, Aylmer, Quebec; Sergeant Blue is commemorated on a plaque in the entrance to the club.
Additional citations
Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Donald Archibald Blue
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Memorial
A memorial tablet at St Andrew's Church in Ottawa is dedicated to the members of the Congregation whose lives were sacrificed in World War II. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Press Clipping
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Grave marker
Photo provided by The Commonwealth Roll of Honour Project. Volunteer Henry Drury -
The Royal Ottawa Golf Club plaque
The Royal Ottawa Golf Club honoured its former members who gave their lives in wartime, by erecting a plaque in the lobby. -
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
Flight Sergeant Donald Archibald Blue is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Donald Archibald Blue is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Honour roll
In memory of the Ashbury College alumni and staff who gave their lives in Word War I, World War II and the Korean War. Plaque erected in the Ashbury College Chapel, 362 Mariposa Avenue, Ottawa -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Archibald Blue
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Archibald Blue
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Archibald Blue
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Archibald Blue
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 59 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CEMETERY Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Startford-Upon-Avon Cemetery contains 22 First World War burials, made mainly from the hospital at Clopton House. During the Second World War, there was a contingent of the Royal Canadian Air Force based at nearby Wellesboune Mountford and of the 137 Second World War burials (most of them forming a war graves plot), 97 are of Canadian airmen. The cemetery also contains 15 war graves of other nationalities.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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