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Joseph Jean Baptist Albert Dugal

In memory of:

Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Jean Baptist Albert Dugal

March 3, 1943

Military Service


Service Number:

R/79463

Age:

29

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

425 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Son of Albert and Rose Anna Dugal, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada; husband of Helen Patricia Dugal, of Montreal.

Commemorated on Page 155 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

5A. LA. 6.

Location:

Ohlsdorf is a village on the river Alster, about 9 km north east of the city of Hamburg on the eastern side of the city airport. Approaching from Hannover or Kiel leave the Autoroute A7 at the junction with the 432 following signposts for the Airport (Flughaven). After 2 km turn right onto Swebenweg which later merges with Krohnstieg and passes under the airport runway. After 4 km turn right onto 433 Chaussee. After 2 km turn left onto Erdkampsweg following signs for Barmbek. Continue along this road for 1.7 Km then turn right immediately before a prominent railway bridge, onto a road calledI M Grunen Grund. After a further 600 metres turn left into Alsterdorfer, the HAMBURG CEMETERY is located in this street at the junction with Fuhlsbuttlerstrasse. The Commission plot is signposted in the HAMBURG CEMETERY and is located 300 metres from the Chapel. Visitors should note that this cemetery is restricted to normal opening hours.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Medal of the National Assembly of Quebec
  • Medals
  • Memorial– Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Jean Baptist Albert Dugal is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Jean Baptist Albert Dugal 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
  • Cemetery
  • 425 Alouette Squadron crest– 425 Alouette Squadron crest of which he was a member and a Wellington MK111 bomber plane on which he was flying.
  • Group Photo– Photo taken by a RCAF photographer at No. 9 B&G Mont-Joli on February 26, 1942.

Edmund Thomas Spears is on the right. On the left is Albert Dugal who also died in WWII.
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Group Photo– Sgt Albert Dugal and his wife Helen McMenamin
  • Bomb aimer Sgt Albert Dugal and his plane
  • Photo of JOSEPH JEAN BAPTIST ALBERT DUGAL– Lest we forget
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Temporary Grave Marker– Announcement of his death in a Montreal newspaper. Photo of his grave in Germany. Photo received by my grandmother after the war.
  • Grave Marker

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