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Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
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Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … name on the panels that surround the Altar … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … Altar … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
Copy of Letter
UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
Name: Edward Noel Macdonell
Rank: Pilot Officer
Death Age: 20
Birth Year: abt 1922
Death Date: 24 Apr 1942
Military Base: Biggin Hill, Kent
Service Number: J15053
Unit: 124 Squadron
Command: Fighter Cmnd
Ship: Spitfire Vb
Occupation: Pilot
Casualty: Killed in action
Residence Place: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Burial Place: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey
Notes: Ditched in the English Channel After Being Damaged By Fw190s When Escorting Bostons to Vlissingen During Circus 132
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
Peace River Record Gazette
Oct 6, 1944, Page 8
Peace River, Alberta, Canada
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
Copy of Letter Page 1 of 2
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Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
Copy of Letter page 2 of 2
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Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … name on the panels that surround the Altar … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … Altar … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Pilot Officer Edward Noel MacDonell is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Copy of Letter UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 Name: Edward Noel Macdonell Rank: Pilot Officer Death Age: 20 Birth Year: abt 1922 Death Date: 24 Apr 1942 Military Base: Biggin Hill, Kent Service Number: J15053 Unit: 124 Squadron Command: Fighter Cmnd Ship: Spitfire Vb Occupation: Pilot Casualty: Killed in action Residence Place: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Burial Place: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey Notes: Ditched in the English Channel After Being Damaged By Fw190s When Escorting Bostons to Vlissingen During Circus 132
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Peace River Record Gazette Oct 6, 1944, Page 8 Peace River, Alberta, Canada
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Copy of Letter Page 1 of 2
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Copy of Letter page 2 of 2
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From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 92 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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