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Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II Ewen Cameron Currie
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Grave Marker
Picture I took during my visit to Kandy. -
Letter from the Sydney Academy
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Extract from the Sydney Academy
From the Sydney Academy Memorial booklet, published by the Student's Assembly in memory of former students who served during the Second World War. The booklet was compiled by Jack Wilcox, class of 1946 and Donald Trivett, class of 1947.<p> Additional Information courtesy of Floyd Williston:<br> WO2 Ewan Cameron Currie, age 25, was killed on December 7, 1943, when the160 Squadron Liberator (BZ885), in which he was wireless-air-gunner, suddenly dived to the ground, at Sigerya, Ceylon. They had just taken off on an anti-submarine patrol. Their full load of depth charges exploded on impact, and there were no survivors. The crew was buried in the Kandy (Sri Lanka) War Cemetery. -
Kandy War Cemetery
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Group Photo
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. <BR> Back row L to R: George Stockwell, E C Currie, unknown, Archie Ferguson.<BR> Front row unknown -
Photo of EWEN CAMERON CURRIE
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of EWEN CAMERON CURRIE
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ewen Cameron Currie
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ewen Cameron Currie
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ewen Cameron Currie
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ewen Cameron Currie
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ewen Cameron Currie
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ewen Cameron Currie
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Ewen Cameron Currie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 150 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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KANDY WAR CEMETERY Sri Lanka
From the Botanical Gardens at Peridenya, take the road to Kandy. Just past the gardens, take a left turning at the rightside direction sign, down Lady Magdalene Drive. The KANDY WAR CEMETERY is approximately 1.5 kilometres along this road.
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