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Son of Patrick and Theresa Mary Collins, of Billing's Bridge, Ontario, Canada.
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Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Inscription to the memory of Joseph Louis Collins on the family grave monument in the cemetery of St Patrick's Church- Fallowfield, Nepean, Ontario
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Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Source: Hamilton Spectator September 20, 1941
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Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
This account of the flying exercise in which Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins and his four crew mates (Flight Sergeant Robert Francis Stephens, Flight Sergeant Robert Laing Roy Younger, Sergeant Alexander George Batchen, all of the RCAF, and Sergeant Mark Seymour Dawe of the RAF) disappeared is taken from a brief biography of Sergeant Alexander George Batchen posted at this website.
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Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Inscription to the memory of Joseph Louis Collins on the family grave monument in the cemetery of St Patrick's Church- Fallowfield, Nepean, Ontario
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Source: Hamilton Spectator September 20, 1941
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This account of the flying exercise in which Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins and his four crew mates (Flight Sergeant Robert Francis Stephens, Flight Sergeant Robert Laing Roy Younger, Sergeant Alexander George Batchen, all of the RCAF, and Sergeant Mark Seymour Dawe of the RAF) disappeared is taken from a brief biography of Sergeant Alexander George Batchen posted at this website.
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From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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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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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 26 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
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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