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Military service
Service number:
R/104801
Age:
24
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
150 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
November 9, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 24. H. 1-6.
Additional information
Son of William Vary Prosser, and Edith Prosser, of Brownsburg, Province of Quebec, Canada.
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands<P> Three RCAF crew members on board Wellington aircraft were killed when it did not return from operations against Hamburg, Germany. The bodies of the crew were not found until 1951 and the wreckage was not found until 1989. The two RCAF with F.Sgt. Prosser were F.Sgt. Donald MacPherson of Winnipeg and F.Sgt. Harry V. Thompson from Toronto. (Source: They Shall Grow Not Old, published by the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, MB) -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Douglas Vary Prosser is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Douglas Vary Prosser is 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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Flight Sergeant Douglas Vary Prosser
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Flight Sergeant Douglas Vary Prosser
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Douglas Vary Prosser
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Douglas Vary Prosser
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 108 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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