Ontario

"AD ASTRA"
W.A. "BILLY" BISHOP
OWEN SOUND ON
1894 - 1956

"AD ASTRA"
WILLIAM G. BARKER
DAUPHIN MAN
1894 - 1930

CANADIAN
VICTORIA CROSS
WINNERS
AIR OPERATIONS

"AD ASTRA"
ALAN A. MC LEOD
STONEWALL MAN
1899 - 1918

"AD ASTRA"
ANDREW MYNARSKI
WINNIPEG MAN
1916 - 1944

"AD ASTRA"
IAN W. BAZALGETTE
CALGARY ALTA
1918 - 1944

"AD ASTRA"
DAVID E. HORNELL
MIMIC0 ONT
1910 – 1944

"AD ASTRA"
ROBERT H. GRAY
TRAIL BC
1917 - 1945

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THIS MONUMENT HONOURS THOSE WHO SERVED WITH
408 (GOOSE) SQUADRON DURING WORLD WAR TWO
AND SALUTES THE SQUADRON’S UNIQUE POST-WAR
CONTRIBUTIONS, AT HOME AND ABROAD, AS DEPICTED
ON EACH FACE OF THE MEMORIAL.

CE MONUMENT HONORE TOUS QUI ONT SERVI DANS
L’ESCADRILLE 408 (GOOSE) DURANT LA DEUXIEME GUERRE
MONDIALE. IL SALUE AUSSI LA CONTRIBUTION UNIQUE DE
L’ESCADRILLE DEPUIS LA FIN DE LA GUERRE, CHEZ NOUS ET
A L’ÉTRANGER, COMME L’ILLUSTRE CHACUNE DE SES FACES.

"...AND THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR
SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES..."
ISAIAH 2,4

[base]
ESCADRILLE 408 SQUADRON

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"...BUT THE MAN WHO
CAN MOST TRULY BE
ACCOUNTED BRAVE IS HE
WHO BEST KNOWS
THE MEANING OF WHAT
IS SWEET IN LIFE
AND WHAT IS TERRIBLE
AND THEN GOES OUT,
UNDETERRED, TO MEET
WHAT IS TO COME..."
PERICLES

SUCH WERE THE 936
CASUALTIES OF
408 SQUADRON
IN WORLD WAR II
1941 - 1945.

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FEW AIRMEN IN THE
HISTORY OF PEACETIME
FLYING OPERATIONS HAVE
UNDERTAKEN AND
ACHIEVED THE ARDUOUS
AND DEMANDING SERIES
OF TASKS REQUIRED TO
COMPLETE THE AERIAL
PHOTOGRAPHY AND
GEODETIC SURVEY
NECESSARY FOR THE
COMPLETION OF THE
MAPPING OF CANADA.

TO THE GROUND AND AIR
CREWS OF 408 SQUADRON
1949 - 1957
SALUTE
PER ARDUA AD ASTRA

"FORTUNAE NIHIL"
DEDICATED TO ALL
THE MEN AND WOMEN OF
429 BISON SQUADRON
FOR SERVICE TO THEIR
COUNTRY PAST AND PRESENT

IN SOLEMN
REMEMBRANCE
OF THOSE
WHO FAILED
TO RETURN

A LA MÉMOIRE
DE NOS
CAMARADES QUI
SONT TOMBÉS
AU COMBAT

APRIL 30, 2000

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
AIR TRAINING PLAN

LE PLAN D’ENTRAINEMENT
AÉRIEN DU COMMONWEALTH

Created as a result of an agreement signed by the
United Kingdom and Canada on 17 December, 1939, this
Plan was one of Canada’s most important contributions
to the Allied war effort in World War II. Over 130,000
airmen from the forces of the Commonwealth and other
countries, including pilots, navigators, bomb aimers,
wireless operators and gunners, trained at schools
established across Canada. Many of the instructors who
were the mainstay of the Plan came from the Trenton
base. Airfields built for the Plan became an important
part of Canada’s postwar aviation network.

Ce programme, fruit d’un accord conclu par le Royaume-
Uni et le Canada le 17 décembre 1939, fut l’une des plus
importantes contributions apportées par notre pays à
l’effort de guerre des Alliés pendant la Seconde Guerre
mondiale. Plus de 130 000 pilotes, navigateurs,
bombardiers, opérateurs radio et mitrailleurs de pays du
Commonwealth et d’autres États reçurent leur formation
aux écoles établies d’un bout à l’autre du Canada.
Nombre de leurs instructeurs venaient de la base de
Trenton. Après la guerre, les aérodromes aménagés aux
fins du programme constituèrent une partie importante
du réseau de transport aérien du Canada.

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada.

Government of Canada - Gouvernement du Canada

PER ARDUA AD ASTRA

SINCE ITS BIRTH DURING
WORLD WAR II, "TUSKER" SQUADRON
HAS SERVED CANADA WITH PRIDE AND
DISTINCTION. FROM CEYLON TO THE
ARCTIC, EUROPE TO THE MARITIMES, IT
HAS "WATCHED OVER THE WAVES."

THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED TO
COMMEMORATE THE BRAVE AND
DEDICATED MEMBERS OF 413
SQUADRON, PAST AND PRESENT.

IN MEMORY OF
R C A F
AND
ALLIED AIR FORCES
OF
BOMBER COMMAND

ERECTED BY BOMBER COMMAND
ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

IN HONOUR OF ALL THOSE
WHO HAVE SERVED
THE SQUADRON SINCE
1 SEPTEMBER 1934

EN HOMMAGE A TOUT
CEUX ET CELLES QUI
ONT SERVI A L’ESCADRILLE
DEPUIS LE 1ER SEPTEMBRE 1934

"THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE"

RESCUE
RCAF

PARA RESCUE ASSOCIATION
OF CANADA

IN MEMORY OF LOADMASTERS
WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES
IN SERVICE TO THEIR COUNTRY

1958 - LAC R. BURLOCK - KFA
1974 - MCPL P. LACOSTE - KFA
1974 - MCPL R. CATON - KFA
1974 - CPL B. STRINGER - UN OPS
1980 - MCPL A. WOODHAM - KFA
1982 - SGT. J. GIONET - KFA
1982 - MCPL L. SMITH - KFA
1989 - MCPL M. PAPINEAU-COUTURE - KFA
1989 - MCPL C. CASTONGUAY - KFA
1991 - MCPL R. PITRE - KFA
1993 - SGT A. MICHAUD - KFA
1993 - MCPL R. MC WILLIAM - KFA

REMEMBER BYGONE DAYS

DEDICATED IN MEMORY TO ALL
WHO SERVED WITH 405 SQUADRON RCAF
BOMBER - PATHFINDER - COASTAL COMMANDS
1941 - 1945

MARITIME COMMAND
1951

"DUCIMUS"