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Military service
Service number:
41391
Age:
25
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
224 Sqdn.
Death:
August 7, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 8.
Additional information
Son of James H. and Helen M. Forbes, of London, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Ray Bruce Forbes
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Photo of Ray Bruce Forbes
Rejected by the RCAF, he hiked to Montreal and worked his way to England on a cattle boat and joined the RAF, He flew a Lockeed Hudson aircraft with #224 Squadron of RAF Costal Command and was credited with sinking a German submarine in the North Sea. He failed ot return from a patrol on August 7, 1940. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Ray Bruce Forbes
Back of photo note: Bruce Forbes London ONT, Picture taken at Leuchars, Scotland Spring 1940. Bruce killed in action two months later. -
Photo of Ray Bruce Forbes
Only family photo of P.O. Bruce Forbes in uniform
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Pilot Officer Ray Bruce Forbes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Ray Bruce Forbes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Ray Bruce Forbes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Ray Bruce Forbes
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Ray Bruce Forbes
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Commemorated on:
Page 13 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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