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Military service
Service number:
J/9366
Age:
21
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
No. 22 Operational Training Unit
Birth:
February 14, 1921
Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
April 23, 1942
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
November 9, 1942
Lighthorn, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 4114.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Gertrude Fanny (nee Jeffery) Clements, of Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Brother of Doreen and Molly.
Additional citations
Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements
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Grave Marker
Photo provided by The Commonwealth Roll of Honour Project. Volunteer Henry Drury -
Memorial
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements 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 -
Photo of DESMOND BRACKEN CLEMENTS
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Attestation paper
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Letter of recommendation
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Letter of recommendation
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Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post November 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Desmond Bracken Clements
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 65 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.
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