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Digital gallery of Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
Temporary grave and cross.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
PL-29845 UK-11712 17/06/44 440 SQN RCAF. One of the first Allied pilots to bail out over France and return to Britain was Flying Officer R.W. Doige, 21, Lasalle, Ontario, a Typhoon pilot in an RCAF Squadron commanded by S/L Bill Pentland, Calgary. Doige is shown on the right and with him is Flying Officer John Dewar, 405 Victoria Street, London, Ontario, whose machine was hit during the same strafing attack but who managed to get back to base in England. Doidge accidentally pulled his ripcord before he was out of his cockpit and the silk streamed out and tangled around the tail assembly. When he finally got out the parachute tore free and he swung to earth with a quarter of the canopy missing.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
LAC, Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Temporary grave and cross.
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PL-29845 UK-11712 17/06/44 440 SQN RCAF. One of the first Allied pilots to bail out over France and return to Britain was Flying Officer R.W. Doige, 21, Lasalle, Ontario, a Typhoon pilot in an RCAF Squadron commanded by S/L Bill Pentland, Calgary. Doige is shown on the right and with him is Flying Officer John Dewar, 405 Victoria Street, London, Ontario, whose machine was hit during the same strafing attack but who managed to get back to base in England. Doidge accidentally pulled his ripcord before he was out of his cockpit and the silk streamed out and tangled around the tail assembly. When he finally got out the parachute tore free and he swung to earth with a quarter of the canopy missing.
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LAC, Ottawa
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From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 290 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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