May we always remember - Let us never forget
Dedicated in 2005 - with gratitude to Parents, Ancestors, Relatives and Friends
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| WW I We honour them all - In this Year of the Vet WW II May we always remember - Let us never forget Dedicated in 2005 - with gratitude to Parents, Ancestors, Relatives and Friends |
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Cpl. Jean M. Thomson (Tommy) As the woman's side of the forces were not issued log books, mom remembered this about her war days: War Service: 1941 - Airwoman 1, 2, then Corporal Mother really liked her job, and especially the fact that she could say "I always had several men under me" More about Jean Righetti and her |
F/O Paul Adam Righetti War Service: Overseas - England
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Happy Anniversary, Mom & Dad. We thank you for your dedication to our country,
your devotion to your family
and for your guidance, LOVE and encouragement.
When our father left to serve overseas in World War II, three of his sisters
(who were nuns) all vowed to pray hard for his safety. He had a special status
with his crew because he had three nuns praying for him ... and although dad
had some close calls during the war he was kept safe. His crew made their tour
of operations with the loss of the mid-upper gunner's index finger as their only
casualty. But an incident did occur with a new crew when they had to make an
emergency landing in thick fog over England where they barely walked away
with their lives. This was his closest call, but oddly occurred while he was
still
flying , but shortly after the war. My father tells me he now understands why,
as many years later
he asked one of the nuns if she had continued to keep
praying for him after the war ended . Her reply was well, not as much! .
AIRCRAFT LIST
Dad flew 600 hours with 74 different pilots at the controls
TIGER MOTH
#2 EFTS, Fort William, Ontario, Canada
ANSON
#7 B&G, Paulson, Manitoba, Canada
#2 OAF, Millom, Cumberland, England
WELLINGTON
#22 OTU, Wellesbourne, Mtfd, England
BOLINGBROKE
#7 B&G, Paulson, Manitoba, Canada
HALIFAX II, V, VII
#1659 HCU Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England
#432 Squadron, Eastmoor, Yorkshire, England
LANCASTER I, II
#427 Squadron, Leeming, Yorkshire, England
#424 Squadron, Skipton, Yorkshire, England
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Dad's Crew Squadron No. 432 Eastmoor, North Yorkshire (Leaside) |
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CREW : ("Q-Queenie") Pilot - J8654 F/L Miller W. E. A/Bomber - R192392 Sgt. Righetti P.A. M/U Gunner - R261470 Sgt. Armstrong G.E. F/E - 1890485 Sgt. Chubb W.F. Nav - J28783 F/O Hall B.E. Wop - R168220 Sgt Dupuis F.R. R/Gunner - R212407 Sgt. Petaske A. Web site Eastmoor Memorial |
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* Badge: a cougar leaping down in front of a full moon * credit rcaf.com |
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Thank you so much to Wartime Pilots & Observers Association and
all the volunteers and organizers
for sponsoring
The Commonwealth Wartime Aircrew Reunions, held in Winnipeg.
The Reunions of 1986 & 1992 reunited the Q-Queenie Crew!!!
They are such wonderful people and we had the priveledge to meet
them and entertain them in our Winnipeg home.
My father happily made posters for the reunions, dedicated to wartime
airfields, aircraft, and even the Brandon wartime training base.
Father has donated some of his posters to this museum in Brandon
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum
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Sgt. Brian Ignatius Joseph
Daly
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Lost Bombers site Info re: Augsburg Raid Bomber Command Augsburg Raid |
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Daly, Brian I J ( mother O 'Flaherty ) vol. 1b page-185 ...he was 23 the same age as mum...
( also a birth for Dympna M C Daly in Hampstead ...Mum had a long letter from his sister )
Marriage of his parents Sept. quarter of 1918
Elizabeth T O'Flaherty and Michael L J Daly / St Martin district / vol.1a / page-1387
Metis Soldier 
Max Jerome
Maxwell Joseph Jerome Discharge Nov. 1945 |
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Service Medals: C.V.S.M. / 39-45 Star / Italy Star / France Germany Star / Defence / Victory |
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Florence Irene Jeanne (Maughan) Jerome - Mother in Law Florence trained as a student nurse during the war at a London hospital, and later at Bexhill General Hospital. She was employed at Bexhill Hospital, Bexhill on Sea, Oct 22 1941. She met and married Max Jerome in 1943. Florence came to Canada in 1946 as a War Bride and Mom, with her husband and their two eldest children.
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I have been remiss in not adding my grandmother and mother-in-law to this site, as they were nurses during the war, when they met their military husbands... |
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Joe Righetti - Uncle My cousin recollects: 1940 Regina - Enlisted in the Army - tried some mechanical training to join the Hussar corp but he said he had no mechanical skills ...so he joined the Navy in 1941 and went from waterless Saskatchewan to British Columbia and then to Halifax and Prince Edward Island...where he learned to swim! They took them out of harbor |
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John ( Jack) Lovelll June 1941 - 5th Canadian Armoured Div. Medals: 39-45 Star, Italy Star, France Germany Star, Defence, 14 Car pin & Badge, Liberation of Holland Remembrance Medal (issued 2002 ) |
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In 1944 his ship was damaged by a torpedo & crew overboard until rescued to a snowy mountain area of Africa, where they were issued blankets & complained of the wet & cold until they saw little African children scantilly dressed and walking barefoot in the snow. |
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James Thomson - Grandfather Born: Dec.2 1889 Fraserburg, Aberdeen, Scotland WW1 - Gordon Fourth Battalion Highlanders He enlisted 23/9/1914 with the 30th Reserve Battalion, Valcartier, Que., Imperial Army, and then with the Fourth Gordon Highlanders in 1915, then the 5th Battalion. He served overseas until 1920. He joined the department of Veterans' affairs as assistant personnel officer later in WW2 & worked there until his death. In June 21st, 1941, he was #372834 Private Class A - 7th Battalion Canadian Infantry |
I never knew my Grandfather...He died before I was born. Mother always spoke so fondly of him. I wish that the rest of the family could have met him! |
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Lt. act/Maj Hubert Porter Blunt M.B.E. Second Lieutenant -
1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
Lt. act/Cpt Brian Gaire Blunt Lieutenant acting Captain R.H.A. |
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2nd Lt. Hubert Ratcliffe Felton Killed in action : private : 2/5th south staffordshire regiment |
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Lt. John William Maughan 2nd Lieutenant -
4th Battalion
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Canadian BloodThis poetry was written by Joe Jerome There were no stars Grey, cloudy French skies above us, Braver hearts never left their homeland Joe Jerome served with the Regina Rifle Regiment Metis Soldier
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