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Son of Walter Alfred William and Charlotte Harper Down, of Chatham, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Nes General Cemetery, Ameland, Frisian Islands, Holland<P>
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Alfred in 1942, Chatham, Ontario
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
From the book; …and they never came back. The story of the C. V. S (Chatham Vocational School) students who fought and died in World War 11. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me, with the permission of the author Peter N. Stanojevic.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Alfred James Down is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.
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Nes General Cemetery, Ameland, Frisian Islands, Holland<P> Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.
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Alfred in 1942, Chatham, Ontario
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From the book; …and they never came back. The story of the C. V. S (Chatham Vocational School) students who fought and died in World War 11. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me, with the permission of the author Peter N. Stanojevic.
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 154 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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AMELAND (NES) GENERAL CEMETERY Netherlands
Ameland, one of the Frisian Islands off the north coast of the Netherlands, is some 15 kilometres from the mainland. Nes is the largest of the four villages on Ameland.
The AMELAND (NES) GENERAL CEMETERY is about 700 metres east of Nes, on the road to Buren. The British plot is in a prominent position immediately left of the entrance.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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