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Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Abram Adams
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Abram Adams
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Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Abram Adams
Marriage of Aubrey Adams & Kathleen Cragg
Edmonton Journal 31 March 1942
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Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Abram Adams
Peace River Record Gazette
May 26, 1944, Page 1
Peace River, Alberta, Canada
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Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Abram Adams
UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
Name: Aubrey Abram Adams
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Death Age: 24
Birth Year: abt 1920
Death Date: 6 May 1944
Military Base: Wick, Caithness
Service Number: J5700
Unit: 404 Squadron
Command: Coastal Cmnd
Ship: Beaufighter Tfx
Occupation: Pilot
Casualty: Killed in action
Residence Place: Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Burial Place: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey
Notes: Became Separated From the Formation Leader and Lost Without Trace During A Patrol Over the Norwegian Coast
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Marriage of Aubrey Adams & Kathleen Cragg Edmonton Journal 31 March 1942
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Peace River Record Gazette May 26, 1944, Page 1 Peace River, Alberta, Canada
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 Name: Aubrey Abram Adams Rank: Flight Lieutenant Death Age: 24 Birth Year: abt 1920 Death Date: 6 May 1944 Military Base: Wick, Caithness Service Number: J5700 Unit: 404 Squadron Command: Coastal Cmnd Ship: Beaufighter Tfx Occupation: Pilot Casualty: Killed in action Residence Place: Richmond, British Columbia, Canada Burial Place: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey Notes: Became Separated From the Formation Leader and Lost Without Trace During A Patrol Over the Norwegian Coast
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In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 234 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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