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Military service
Service number:
R/109725
Age:
20
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
115 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
November 28, 1922
Chatham, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 11, 1941
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
March 2, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot D. Row 13. Grave 11.
Additional information
Son of Walter Alfred William and Charlotte Harper Down, of Chatham, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
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Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of ALFRED JAMES DOWN
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands. -
Cemetery
Nes General Cemetery, Ameland, Frisian Islands, Holland<P> Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands. -
Photo of Alfred James Down
Alfred in 1942, Chatham, Ontario -
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From the book; …and they never came back. The story of the C. V. S (Chatham Vocational School) students who fought and died in World War 11. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me, with the permission of the author Peter N. Stanojevic. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 154 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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