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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
R/54201
Age:
26
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
18 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
October 22, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 11. F. 24-25.
Additional information
Son of Henry Paden Woodburn and Mary Blair Woodburn, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant James Douglas Woodburn
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Newspaper Clipping
Source: Globe and Mail, October 25, 1941 -
Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant James Douglas Woodburn is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant James Douglas Woodburn is also 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 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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