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Digital gallery of Sergeant Fernand St Laurent
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Fernand St Laurent
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Fernand St Laurent
Family information on health form shows that Sgt St. Laurent's mother was a widow and he had four siblings: one brother and three sisters.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Fernand St Laurent
Quebec death registration for Sgt. Scott.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Fernand St Laurent
Story of Canso 9754 which had to make an emergency landing after they battled with a German U-boat in the waters near Faroe Islands. The 8-man crew were to endure hours in one 4-man inflatable raft which ended in the death of the pilot, F/L David Hornell, and F/Sgt. Donald Stewart Scott and Sgt. St. Laurent. The pilot is buried in Scotland and the two Flight Engineers slipped away in the cold waters from fatigue.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Fernand St Laurent
Photo of one of F/L Hornell's crew which includes both Flight Engineers who perished (front row left) and F/L Hornell (back row 2nd from right).
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Fernand St Laurent
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Fernand St Laurent
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Family information on health form shows that Sgt St. Laurent's mother was a widow and he had four siblings: one brother and three sisters.
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Quebec death registration for Sgt. Scott.
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Story of Canso 9754 which had to make an emergency landing after they battled with a German U-boat in the waters near Faroe Islands. The 8-man crew were to endure hours in one 4-man inflatable raft which ended in the death of the pilot, F/L David Hornell, and F/Sgt. Donald Stewart Scott and Sgt. St. Laurent. The pilot is buried in Scotland and the two Flight Engineers slipped away in the cold waters from fatigue.
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Photo of one of F/L Hornell's crew which includes both Flight Engineers who perished (front row left) and F/L Hornell (back row 2nd from right).
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From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 435 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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