The Ottawa Memorial Project

The stories of the Canadian men and women whose names are on the Ottawa Memorial can be found at www.ottawamemorialproject.org

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/national-inventory-canadian-memorials/details/3156

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Peter-Zoephel.html

Harvard student from Britain joined RCAF becoming observer. Aboard Liberator 41-11708, he and twenty-five other men were lost off the coast of Brazil.

Student Joseph Stanley Yurkowski joined the RCAF and became a WOAG. Aboard Ventura AE950, during a training flight, he and the pilot were lost near Grand Manan, Island in July 1942, during the pilot’s first solo flight doing the exercises.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Joseph-Yurkowski.html

Well educated theatre manager, Alan Wilmot Young, joined the RCAF and became an average pilot. At No. 31 O.T.U., Debert, NS, he and three others aboard Hudson FK443 were lost during an anti-submarine patrol.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Alan-Young.html

His story can also be found in the book Carved in Stone, available through the author, Anne Gafiuk, and at the museums in Fernie and Sparwood, BC.

John Maitland Young has been a junior audit clerk with a private pilot’s license when he joined the RCAF in 1938. Flying Liberator 589 on September 4, 1943, the plane crashed after take-off into Gander Lake, Newfoundland.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/John-Young.html

Sydney Henry Arthur Wright had been a bookkeeper with a wife and two young children when he enlisted with the RCAF and became a regional controller. Perished aboard the Yngaren en route from Nova Scotia to the UK.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Sydney-Wright.html

Richard Brock Wylie was a mechanical engineer who had seventy books in one trunk of belongings. He became a pilot in the late 1930s with the RCAF. Piloting Bolingbroke 9007, he and his crew went missing over the Atlantic during a convoy es**rt patrol. While on the search for the plane and crew, another plane crashed on Sable Island, killing all aboard.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Richard-Wylie.html

Charles Ernest Wright had been a general store manager prior to becoming an equipment assistant with the RCAF. A passenger aboard Lysander 466 out of Dartmouth, NS in July 1942 on a local practice flight, he was lost when the aircraft crashed. The pilot’s body was recovered in the wreckage.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Charles-Wright.html

Douglas Buchanan Wortley was catching a ride home, when aboard Anson 9818 was killed when the plane crashed into Old Settler Mountain, near Yale, BC.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Douglas-Wortley.html

Kenneth Beverley Woods was an athletic lab assistant prior to he becoming a navigator. He was lost aboard the Amerika.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Kenneth-Woods.html

Henry Raymond Woodman was a Wireless Air Gunner from Digby County, NS, aboard Hudson BW700, during air exercises when it crashed into the Bay of Fundy.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Henry-Woodman.html

John Walter Wood had been a dress buyer for Robt Simpson Co. before he joined the RCAF and became a pilot. During a routine practice flight in the Bahamas, he and Maurice Francis O’Neill crashed in Marauder HD664. Wreckage found, but no sign of the crew. Both men trained together since SFTS.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/John-Wood.html