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Military service
Service number:
J/85789
Age:
21
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
#420 Snowy Owl Squadron
Death:
March 16, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
4. E. 34.
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Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie <br>#420 Snowy Owl Squadron (Pugnanimus Finitum) <br>Halifax Aircraft #LW 426 missing during night operations over Stuttgart, Germany -
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Biography
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Memorial
Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie 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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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie
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Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Charles Alexander Ritchie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 428 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Germany
Durnbach is a village 16 kilometres east of Bad Tolz, a town 48 kilometres south of Munich. Durnbach War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village Gmund am Tegernsee. Using the A8 from Munich, turn off at the junction Holzkirchen, taking the 318 road in the direction of Gmund am Tegernsee. At the crossroads with the 472, turn left in the direction of Miesbach. The cemetery is situated approximately 500 metres on the left from the 318/472 crossroads.
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