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Son of Hugh Ross Collver and Helen Collver, of Fort William, Ontario, Canada. King's Scout.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
This pew at Wesley United Church, 130 Brodie Street North, Thunder Bay, ON was dedicated to the memory of F/O Joe B. Collver by the Collver family. F/O Collver died on 29 July 1944 and is buried in the Runnymede Memorial Cemetery in Surrey, United Kingdom.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
The crew on aboard Halifax MZ589 was lost during an operation to Hamburg. Six Canadian airmen were lost, Joseph Collver, Robert Leman, Norman Bailey, Matthew MacFarlane, Norman Jermey and William Sorel.
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver
From the Toronto Star August 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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This pew at Wesley United Church, 130 Brodie Street North, Thunder Bay, ON was dedicated to the memory of F/O Joe B. Collver by the Collver family. F/O Collver died on 29 July 1944 and is buried in the Runnymede Memorial Cemetery in Surrey, United Kingdom.
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The crew on aboard Halifax MZ589 was lost during an operation to Hamburg. Six Canadian airmen were lost, Joseph Collver, Robert Leman, Norman Bailey, Matthew MacFarlane, Norman Jermey and William Sorel. Submitted by Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flying Officer Joseph Beemer Collver is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star August 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 277 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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