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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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...
Royal Canadian Air Force - WW2 HQ, Tree, 1998
Canadian Maple (Acer Saccharum). This tree was planted by the Rt. Honourable...
Other Subjects
John Chipman Kerr, VC
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 16 September 1916, age 29, while serving in the 49th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. "When bombs were running short he ran along the parados under heavy f...
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada
This company operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and several American states.
Andrew Bonar Law
British Prime Minister. Born Kingston, New Brunswick, (which at that time was a British colony and not part of Canada). After his mother's death in 1870 he moved to Scotland. Elected to parliament ...
Historical Society of Ottawa
Formed initially as the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, renamed in 1956. From their website: "To celebrate Ottawa’s centenary in 1926, the Society unveiled a memorial to Lieutenant-...
Second Lieutenant Crispin Asahel De Pass
Crispin Asahel De Pass was born on 1 June 1893 in Finchley, Middlesex (now Greater London), the third of the five children of Alfred Aaron De Pass (1861-1952) and Ethel Phoebe De Pass née Salaman (...
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Whiskey-A-Go-Go Club
Former nightclub. It opened in the 1970s (or 1959 - see below), in the premises once occupied by the Flamingo Club. The name was adapted from the 'Whiskey a Go Go' club in Hollywood. We know nothi...
Skylon
SE1, Jubilee Gardens
Plaque laid flat in the ground, to the west of the flagpole, to the right in our photograph. The main inscription reads like a quote but ...
Bloomsbury House - Thomas Arnold
WC1, Bloomsbury Square, 2-3
Bloomsbury House was built in 1887 for the College of Preceptors. Designed by by F. Pinches it is Listed Grade 1. The College, now call...
Oliver Heaviside
Born in Camden Town. Aged 12 the family could no longer afford to send him to school so he continued studying on his own. Thus he was largely self-taught, no secondary education or university. In ...
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Founded as the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it changed its name to include cattle troughs in 1867. London...
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