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Military service
Service number:
J/28180
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
440 Sqdn.
Death:
August 12, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXVII. F. 2.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
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Photo of John Fraser Dewar
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Grave Marker
Temporary grave and cross. -
Group Photo
PL-29845 UK-11712 17/06/44 440 SQN RCAF. One of the first Allied pilots to bail out over France and return to Britain was Flying Officer R.W. Doige, 21, Lasalle, Ontario, a Typhoon pilot in an RCAF Squadron commanded by S/L Bill Pentland, Calgary. Doige is shown on the right and with him is Flying Officer John Dewar, 405 Victoria Street, London, Ontario, whose machine was hit during the same strafing attack but who managed to get back to base in England. Doidge accidentally pulled his ripcord before he was out of his cockpit and the silk streamed out and tangled around the tail assembly. When he finally got out the parachute tore free and he swung to earth with a quarter of the canopy missing. -
Circumstances of crash
LAC, Ottawa -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 290 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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