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Military service
Service number:
R/50369
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
120 Sqdn.
Birth:
July 26, 1920
Saint John, New Brunswick
Death:
August 13, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 103.
Additional information
Husband of Merle Craig, of Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, whom he married on 19 December 1941. One month later, Flight Sergeant Craig was sent overseas and ended up based in Ireland. On 13 August 1942, his commanders received a radio message from the S.S. Letitia that it has been torpedoed. Flight Sergeant Craig's aircraft took off to look for survivors and attacked a German submarine. Brother of Helen, Edmund, and Marian. He attended Kingston Consolidated School and Saint John High School.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Alfred Burton Craig
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Newspaper Clipping
Transatlantic telephone call solves 60-year war mystery. Excerpt from Telelgraph Journal, Saint John, N.B. 1 October, 2003 -
Newspaper Clipping 2
Transatlantic Telephone call solves 60-year war mystery. -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ALFRED BURTON CRAIG
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Times Globe c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John Telegraph Journal c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred Burton Craig
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred Burton Craig
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred Burton Craig
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred Burton Craig
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred Burton Craig
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred Burton Craig
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred Burton Craig
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 67 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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