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The Ottawa Memorial Project This page tells the stories of the men and women serving in units operating from bases in Canada, th

Student Joseph Stanley Yurkowski joined the RCAF and became a WOAG. Aboard Ventura AE950, during a training flight, he a...
02/07/2025

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,...
02/06/2025

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. Flyin...
02/05/2025

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 b...
02/04/2025

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 th...
02/03/2025

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 passeng...
02/02/2025

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

John Walter Wood had been a dress buyer for Robt Simpson Co. before he joined the RCAF and became a pilot. During a rout...
01/29/2025

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

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