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Military service
Service number:
C/766
Age:
25
Rank:
Squadron Leader
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
No. 8 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
Birth:
January 8, 1916
Estevan, Saskatchewan
Death:
June 3, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 1. Column 2.
Additional information
Son of Edmund Richard and Hannah Florence (Whitlam) Wylie.
Digital gallery of Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
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Photo of Richard Wylie
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Inscription
Squadron Leader RICHARD BROCK WYLIE, Pilot Officer FREDERICK JAMES PARKER, Sergeant LEONARD JOSEPH REYNOLD CHABOT and Aircraftman 1st Class FLOYD JOSEPH TIBBETT were presumed to have died on June 3, 1941, the day their aircraft went missing on convoy patrol. They have no known grave and are commemorated at the Ottawa Memorial. -
Newspaper clipping
Squadron Leader RICHARD BROCK WYLIE, Pilot Officer FREDERICK JAMES PARKER, Sergeant LEONARD JOSEPH REYNOLD CHABOT and Aircraftman 1st Class FLOYD JOSEPH TIBBETT were reported missing while on convoy patrol in this clipping from the Hamilton Spectator of June 11, 1941. -
Newspaper clipping
Squadron Leader RICHARD BROCK WYLIE, Pilot Officer FREDERICK JAMES PARKER, Sergeant LEONARD JOSEPH REYNOLD CHABOT and Aircraftman 1st Class FLOYD JOSEPH TIBBETT were listed as 'Previously Reported Missing - Now for Official Purposes Presumed Dead' in this clipping from the Globe and Mail of January 13, 1942. -
The Ottawa Memorial
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Inscription
Dedicatory inscription at the Ottawa Memorial -
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Letter (3)
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Newspaper clipping
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Document
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Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
From the Leader Post Regina, Saskatchewan. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Leader Post Regina, Saskatchewan. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Memorial
Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023.
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Richard Brock Wylie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 49 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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