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Military service
Service number:
R/70157
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
162 Sqdn.
Death:
June 24, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 255.
Additional information
Son of Willie Allan Scott and Laura Essie Scott, of Pakenham, Ontario; husband of Kathleen Scott.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott
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Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott May 1943 -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Donald Stewart Scott
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Attestation paper
Donald Scott was a student at the Galt Aircraft School which offered six month courses for aircraft electricians and aero-engine, airframe and instrument mechanics when he joined the RCAF. -
Letter
RCAF letter written to father in 1952. By this time, the parents knew that they had lost both their sons while serving in the air force. Donald's younger brother, Kenneth, was killed in Burma on January 12, 1945, only 6-1/2 months after they heard that Donald was lost at sea. They were the only children of Mr. & Mrs. Scott. -
Death Certificate
Ontario Death Registration -
Memorial
This flat marker is in the Pakenham Union Cemetery. The find-a-grave website where this was found doesn't record the burials in this cemetery of his parents. -
Essay
The story of Canso 9754 “P” ‘Mary K’ after it ditched in the northern seas near the Faroe Islands resulting in the deaths of F/L (P) David Hornell, F/S (FE) Donald S. Scott and Sgt. Fernand St. Laurent. (researched by G. E. Chase) -
Group Photo
A photo of F/L Hornell's Canso crew including F/Sgt Scott and Sgt. St. Laurent. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Scott
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 439 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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