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Military service
Service number:
R/97522
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber)
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
420 Sqdn.
Death:
January 29, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. Z.K. Grave 28.
Additional information
Son of Geoffrey Murray Downton and Winifred Heather Downton; husband of Iris Evelyn Downton, of Fleggburgh, Norfolk.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Charles Murray Downton
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Photo of Charles Murray Downton
C. Murray Downton relaxing in uniform. -
Photo of CHARLES MURRAY DOWNTON
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of CHARLES MURRAY DOWNTON
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Charles Murray Downton is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Charles Murray Downton is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Commemoration from lych gate, Lillooet cemetery, Lillooet BC. -
Lillooet Cemetery
Lych gate at Lillooet Cemetery, Lillooet, BC. This was erected in memory of Downton. -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 155 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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EXETER HIGHER CEMETERY Devon, United Kingdom
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