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Military service
Service number:
R/111483
Age:
28
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
90 Sqdn.
Death:
April 21, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 184.
Additional information
Son of Henry Smith McKerns and Mary Alice Hanley McKerns, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Monument
Inscription to the memory of Charles McKerns on the family grave marker in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario -
Newspaper Clipping
Charles McKerns was killed on April 21, 1943. He was `previously reported missing on active service overseas, now for official purposes presumed dead¿ in casualty list No. 749 of the Royal Canadian Air Force, published in the Globe and Mail on December 10,1943. -
Photo of CHARLES MCKERNS
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Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. 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 -
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Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles McKerns
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 191 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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