Group    From 7/11/1942  To 31/5/1946

427 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force

Countries: Canada

The picture source gives "No. 427 Squadron formed at Croft ...{County Durham}... as another of the RCAF's bomber squadrons, becoming part of No. 6 Group on 1 January 1943." Moved to RAF Leeming, Yorkshire in May 1943.

Latin motto: Ferte Manus Certas - translates as 'Striking sure'.

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427 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force

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Ukrainian Canadian Servicemen's Association

Ukrainian Canadian Servicemen's Association

The headquarters were at 218 Sussex Gardens from January 1943 to the war's end.

Group, Canada, Ukraine

1 memorial
Claire Rayner

Claire Rayner

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Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, TV & Radio, Canada

1 memorial
John Buchan

John Buchan

Author and Governor-General of Canada. Born at Perth, Scotland. He entered the diplomatic service, becoming private secretary to the High Commissioner for Southern Africa. Created Baron Tweedsmuir ...

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Canada, Scotland, South Africa

1 memorial
J. E. Stanley Lewis

J. E. Stanley Lewis

Born in Ottawa.  Ottawa's longest serving mayor, 1936 to 1948.  The photo shows him in 1946 the year of the planting of the tree that he gifted but we don't think he was at the event.

Person, Benefactor, Politics & Administration, Canada

1 memorial
George Russell Bruce

George Russell Bruce

Pilot Officer George Russell Bruce was born on 12 August 1914 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, the son of George Arthur Bruce (1890-1946) and Grace Daisy Bruce née Russell (b.1889). His sister w...

Person, Canada, USA

War dead, WW2
1 memorial