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Son of Thomas A. and Annie S. Duckworth, of Angus, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Duckworth and family including son Murray about 1943
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
This memorial is located in Scotland.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
This memorial is located in Norway.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
Annually, in about October and November, banners are displayed in Barrie, Ontario, to commemorate the local war dead. Pictured here is a banner in memory of Pilot Officer A.M. Duckworth. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2020.)
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
Identification photo of Alan Murray Duckworth, taken early in his period of RCAF service (i.e. circa the latter half of 1942). Duckworth was from Angus, Ontario, and before joining the RCAF had been employed as a civilian clerk / bookkeeper at nearby RCAF Station Camp Borden.
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
RCAF identification photograph of Alan Murray Duckworth, taken when he was in the rank of sergeant (circa June 1943 - March 1944). On his left breast he is wearing the navigator's flying badge, which was awarded to him on 11 June 1943.
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Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
From the Barrie Examiner c. 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Alan Murray Duckworth
From the Barrie Examiner c. 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Mr. & Mrs. Tom Duckworth and family including son Murray about 1943
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This memorial is located in Scotland.
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This memorial is located in Norway.
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Annually, in about October and November, banners are displayed in Barrie, Ontario, to commemorate the local war dead. Pictured here is a banner in memory of Pilot Officer A.M. Duckworth. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2020.)
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Identification photo of Alan Murray Duckworth, taken early in his period of RCAF service (i.e. circa the latter half of 1942). Duckworth was from Angus, Ontario, and before joining the RCAF had been employed as a civilian clerk / bookkeeper at nearby RCAF Station Camp Borden.
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RCAF identification photograph of Alan Murray Duckworth, taken when he was in the rank of sergeant (circa June 1943 - March 1944). On his left breast he is wearing the navigator's flying badge, which was awarded to him on 11 June 1943.
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From the Barrie Examiner c. 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Barrie Examiner c. 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 511 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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