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Flight Lieutenant Brass attended McDougall School, Crescent Heights High School and Mount Royal College. He took flying lessons prior to volunteering for service with the RCAF, and subsequently graduated in March 1942 from No. 10 Flying Service Training School at Dauphin, Manitoba.
Following his transfer to Europe, Flight Lieutenant Brass served as a Flight Instructor in Northern England. After requesting assignment to active service three times, he was assigned to #105 Squadron, Pathfinder Force (R.A.F.)
On 11 December 1944, he was returning from an attack upon Bielefeld, Germany while piloting a Mosquito aircraft #MM152. The severely damaged plane crashed two and one half miles east of Newmarket, Suffolk England.
Flight Lieutenant Brass was survived by his parents and sisters Mary and Margaret, and brother, Signalman Arthur Brass (RCN).
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with clasp, War Medal 1939-45, Operational Wings
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass
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Photo of James Gladstone Brass
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Photo 2 of James Gladstone Brass
England 1943 -
Grave marker
Photo provided by The Commonwealth Roll Of Honour Project. Volunteer Mike and Dale -
Photo of JAMES GLADSTONE BRASS
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of James Gladstone Brass
Edmonton, Alberta about 1942 -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 257 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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