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Military service
Service number:
J/24564
Age:
20
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
June 17, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
54. E. 9.
Additional information
Son of Ross Gilchrist and Marjorie Ethel Gilchrist, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper Clipping
Flying Officer DONALD ROSS GILCHRIST, Flying Officer PHILIP HORACE DUVAL, Sergeant ARTHUR KENNETH HRYCENKO, Sergeant OTIS WILFRID LIBBY, and Flying Officer RICHARD REGINALD RICKY WHITBY are listed in this excerpt of the Department of National Defense for Air Causalty List No 925, published in the Globe and Mail on July 4, 1944, as having been Killed on Active Service Overseas,. They were killed on June 17, 1944 and are buried in adjacent graves (Section 54. E.10 to E. 6) at BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, Surrey, United Kingdom and presumably died together when their aircraft crashed in England. -
Inscription
Flying Officer DONALD ROSS GILCHRIST, Flying Officer PHILIP HORACE DUVAL, Sergeant ARTHUR KENNETH HRYCENKO, Sergeant OTIS WILFRID LIBBY, and Flying Officer RICHARD REGINALD RICKY WHITBY were all killed on June 17, 1944 as indicated by these inscriptions on their grave markers. They are buried in adjacent graves (Section 54. E.10 to E. 6) at BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, Surrey, United Kingdom and presumably died together when their aircraft crashed in England. -
Photo of DONALD ROSS GILCHRIST
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of DONALD ROSS GILCHRIST
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Donald Ross Gilchrist
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 315 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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