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Military service
Service number:
R/151140
Age:
21
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class I
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
11 Sqdn.
Death:
July 13, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 4. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of David and Lillian Crosson. Husband of Dorothy Crosson, of Thessalon, Ontario. A commemorative cairn was constructed and erected by the personnel of Canadian Forces Base Comox at the site of the July 13, 1945 crash of a Royal Canadian Air Force Liberator near Bamfield, British Colombia. It bears a bronze plaque provided by the Canadian Agency of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The cairn stands at the site of the last resting place of the fourteen crash victims. It was unveiled on August 10, 1983 by the Honourable W. Bennett Campbell, Minister of Veterans Affairs, in the presence of representatives of the families of the crash victims.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 507 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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