Military service
Burial/memorial information
1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, the 6 August 1946.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Richard Michael Hastings Purdon
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Photo of Richard Purdon
In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Circumstances of death registers
Circumstances of death. LAC. Ottawa -
Newspaper clipping
From a WW2 issue of the Vancouver Province newspaper c1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Michael Hastings Purdon
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Michael Hastings Purdon
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Michael Hastings Purdon
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Michael Hastings Purdon
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Michael Hastings Purdon
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Michael Hastings Purdon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 205 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY Nord, France
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