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Military service
Service number:
J/8104
Age:
26
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
69 Sqdn.
Birth:
August 27, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
December 27, 1940
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 10, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 4, Column 1.
Additional information
Son of John Byron Ray, and of Sarah Ray, of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Pilot Officer Howard Stanley Ray who died on October 21, 1941 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Verdun Blake Ray
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Verdun Blake Ray
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Verdun Blake Ray
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 108 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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