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Military service
Service number:
R/150207
Age:
22
Rank:
Leading Aircraftman
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
October 20, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
U.S.A. Coll. Grave. Lot GE. 34
Additional information
Son of Clifford B. Read and Ethel Mary Read, of Rochester, New York.
Commemorated on the St. Donat Memorial and RCAF Liberator III Memorial.
Digital gallery of Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read
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Newspaper Clipping
This newspaper clipping appeared in a 1946 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, Charlottetown, PEI. The airplane mentioned in the article was a Liberator aircraft # 3701 enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec. It crashed and burned on the west side of a foothill of Black Mountain in Quebec. There is a Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain that was erected in memory of the twenty four gallant lads who lost their lives there. -
St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery
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Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain
A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians. -
Close-Up of Memorial Plaque
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Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. -
Memorial
Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 206 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. DONAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY Quebec, Canada
The 24 Royal Canadian Air Force casualties were previously buried in the isolated grave site at nearby Black Mountain.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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