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Son of Robert and Anna M. Le Gear, of Barrie, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Barrie Cenotaph
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Circumstances of crash. LAC Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Letter to Vic Le Gear, Frederick's brother. LAC Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Yearly, about October and November, banners are displayed in Barrie, Ontario, in remembrance of local war dead. Pictured here is the banner commemorating Flying Officer Stanley Le Gear. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2020.)
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
Letter, dated 14 September 1944, from the officer commanding 263 Squadron to F/O Frederick Le Gear's brother, F/O V.H.J. Le Gear, regarding the circumstances surrounding Frederick's being posted as missing. F/O Frederick Le Gear was the youngest of five children in his family. At the time of his death, one of his brothers (Robert) was serving overseas in the Canadian Army, another brother (Victor) was serving overseas in the RCAF, and his third brother and his sister were living in Barrie, Ontario.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
From the Toronto Star July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
From the Toronto Star July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear
From the Barrie Examiner c. 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Barrie Cenotaph
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Circumstances of crash. LAC Ottawa
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Letter to Vic Le Gear, Frederick's brother. LAC Ottawa
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Yearly, about October and November, banners are displayed in Barrie, Ontario, in remembrance of local war dead. Pictured here is the banner commemorating Flying Officer Stanley Le Gear. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2020.)
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Letter, dated 14 September 1944, from the officer commanding 263 Squadron to F/O Frederick Le Gear's brother, F/O V.H.J. Le Gear, regarding the circumstances surrounding Frederick's being posted as missing. F/O Frederick Le Gear was the youngest of five children in his family. At the time of his death, one of his brothers (Robert) was serving overseas in the Canadian Army, another brother (Victor) was serving overseas in the RCAF, and his third brother and his sister were living in Barrie, Ontario.
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From the Toronto Star July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Barrie Examiner c. 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 363 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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