P/O Peter Donald Ross-Ross Plaque

This bronze plaque was unveiled in memory of Pilot Officer Peter Donald Ross-Ross, RCAF.

Peter Donald Ross-Ross was born on 11 August 1924 and raised in Cornwall, Ontario. He underwent aircrew and navigator training in Canada as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) before going overseas. Once in England, he was assigned to 227 Squadron, RAF flying Lancaster bombers from RAF Balderton, south-east of Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire.

On the night of 3-4 March 1945, P/O Ross-Ross took part in a bombing mission to attack the Dortmund-Ems Canal in the area of Ladbergen, Germany. His aircraft was hit and crashed, killing Ross-Ross a mere two months before the cessation of hostilities in Europe. Initially buried at Munster, P/O Peter Donald Ross-Ross was re-buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, near Kleve, Germany.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF

P/O PETER DONALD ROSS-ROSS R.C.A.F.

ELDEST AND DEARLY BELOVED SON OF

KATHLEEN AND DONALD ROSS-ROSS

BORN AUGUST 11^TH 1924

NAVIGATOR OF AN R.A.F. LANCASTER BOMBER

SHOT DOWN WHILE ATTACKING THE DORTMUND-EMS CANAL

NEAR LADBERGEN MARCH 3^RD 1945

BURIED AT MUNSTER, GERMANY

O VALIANT HEART, WHO TO YOUR GLORY CAME

THROUGH DUST OF CONFLICT AND THROUGH BATTLE FLAME.

SPLENDID YOU PASSED, THE GREAT SURRENDER MADE

INTO THE LIGHT THAT NEVER MORE SHALL FAIL.