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Flying Officer Ralph James Lougheed

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Military service

Service number: J/40492
Age: 20
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 103 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: November 11, 1924 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death: January 7, 1945

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MUNSTER COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Grave reference: Coll. grave.
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Son of Dr. M. S. Lougheed and Gladys (nee Haney) Lougheed, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. FO Ralph James Lougheed was killed in action January 7, 1945 when his Lancaster bomber crashed in the village of Hohrodberg near Munster in the Voges Mountains of France. The crash occured next to a hospital run by Protestant nuns for children with TB. One nun in particular, Ida Meiss, buried the men. Mr. and Mrs. H. Pickup, who befriended FO Lougheed while stationed near Oxford, England, visited his grave in 1946 and can be seen with Ida Meiss in one of the photographs in his collection. The Pickups gave Mrs. Gladys Lougheed the photograph and a small piece of the aircraft, years later when they emigrated to Canada. He is survived by his sister Florence and brother Lawrence.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 535 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MUNSTER COMMUNAL CEMETERY Haut-Rhin, France

Munster is a small town on the Colmar-Gerardmer road (N.417). The communal cemetery is on the north-eastern side of the town, on the D.10 road to Gunsbach. West of the lodge in the centre of the cemetery, and on the north-western side of the Military Plot, is the collective grave of 7 airmen. One of them belonged to the Royal Air Force and the others to the Royal Canadian Air Force.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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