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Canadian personnel who served and died in WW2

Countries: Canada

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85,000 Canadian personnel served in 48 RCAF Squadrons and with numerous RAF units. In all, 14,455 Canadian airmen made the supreme sacrifice while serving overseas.

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Canadian personnel who served and died in WW2

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Royal Canadian Air Force - WW2 HQ, monument

This monument is in Lincoln's Inn Square garden, opposite the building at num...

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Royal Canadian Air Force - WW2 HQ, Tree, 1998

Canadian Maple (Acer Saccharum). This tree was planted by the Rt. Honourable...

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Canada Memorial Foundation

Canada Memorial Foundation

The Canada Memorial Foundation has its origins in a Letter to the Editor published in a British newspaper in 1988 suggesting a monument in memory of the contribution of Canadians to World War I and...

Group, Education, Canada

1 memorial
Robert Porter Cooper

Robert Porter Cooper

Passenger killed in the Handley Page V/1500 air-crash. Robert Porter Cooper was born on 5 September 1881 in Hammond, Russell, Ontario, Canada, the eldest of the six children of William Cooper (183...

Person, Tragedy, Canada, Ireland

1 memorial
David Thompson

David Thompson

Fur-trader, surveyor and mapmaker. Born Dafydd ap Thomas at Marsham Street, London. He was chosen to be an apprentice to the Hudson Bay Company. Transferring to the North West Company in 1797 he em...

Person, Exploring, 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