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Military service
Service number:
R/203548
Age:
20
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
298 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
November 7, 1924
Broadview, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
November 9, 1942
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
March 24, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 29. F. 13-18.
Additional information
Son of Donald Norman Bunn and Mabel (nee Boustead) Bunn, of Broadview, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
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Photo of JAMES EWART BUNN
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of JAMES EWART BUNN
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Cenotaph
Some of these images were passed down to me from my Grandmother, others I took myself on a journey to Saskatchewan, Canada to pay tribute to my father who I never met except in pictures. -
Memorial
Memorial Plaque placed on an island in Bunn Lake, Saskatchewan. -
Memorial
Jim & Gail in Lac L'orange, Saskatchewan getting ready to fly to Bunn Lake. -
Photo of JAMES EWART BUNN
Flight Training in Canada. -
Cenotaph
Cenotaph in Broadview, Saskatchewan. -
Newspaper clipping
London Newspaper clipping of "presumption of death" -
Memorial
The Memorial Plaque was permanently installed on a small island in Bunn Lake, Sask and will remain for eternity. This was the most memorable trip I have ever taken and I wish all sons of War Hero's could do the same. -
Photo of JAMES EWART BUNN
James Ewart Bunn, my father whom I have never met. -
Memorial
This is the island in Bunn Lake where the Memorial Plaque was placed. -
Grave Marker
Jim Bunn grave in Reichswald war cemetery. Taken 3rd June 2023 by his cousin Martin Gladwell accompanied by his cousin Angus Foster -
Photo of James Ewart Bunn
Memorial citation laid with a wreath at RAF Woodbridge (Where Jim took off from on his last flight) on the 80th anniversary of his death 24th March 2025. The wreath and citation were laid at the moment recorded as his take off time (07:43) in 298 Squadron's War Diary -
Wreath
Wreath laid at RAF Woodbridge (Where Jim took off from on his last flight) on the 80th anniversary of his death 24th March 2025. The wreath and citation were laid at the moment recorded as his take off time (07:43) in 298 Squadron's War Diary -
Paying respects
Martin Gladwell (Cousin of Jim laying a wreath laid at RAF Woodbridge (Where Jim took off from on his last flight) on the 80th anniversary of his death 24th March 2025. The wreath was laid at the moment recorded as his take off time (07:43) in 298 Squadron's War Diary
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II James Ewart Bunn
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 500 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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