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Military service
Service number:
J/19854
Age:
21
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
434 Sqdn.
Birth:
January 14, 1923
New Westminster, British Columbia
Enlistment:
March 28, 1942
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
June 17, 1944
Sterkrade, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIV. H. 15.
Additional information
Son of John Fraser McAllister and Frances Evelyn (nee O'Connor) McAllister, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Brother of John Arthur, William, Kilburn and Erma Jean.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, the 24 October 1947.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister
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Group Photo
McQueen Crew 52 L to R (facing interrogators) F/O Lee Shaw (2nd Dickey?), F/Sgt W. McQueen, W. G. Pearcy? RAF, F/Sgt C.T. Beech, Sgt Michael Habiluk, F/O D.F. McAllistar, A. Warrington? RAF, and F/Sgt Alan Kingston. Some crews took longer to get home for debriefing than others. Crew #52 ditched their Halifax in the North Sea while returning home from a raid on Leipzig. Rescued by the navy, they were given dry rubber boots, old flannel slacks and sweaters. After three days they made it back to Tholthorpe, rumpled and weary, but not looking much like the "pirates, thugs, and brigands" that Lord Haw Haw described as belonging to the squadron.<P> On 16/17 June 1944 this crew (minus F/O L. Shaw) flying a Halifax III, serial # LK-792, coded WL-N, on a bombing raid to Sterkrade would "Fail to Return" all were killed.<P> (F/Sgt Alan Kingston's Nephew - Darrin Kingston is currently researching this crew) Courtesy CFJIC PL - 22526 -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Fraser McAllister
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 381 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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