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Military service
Service number:
R/129211
Age:
20
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
October 20, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. Grave. Lot GE. 34.
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Polly Barabonoff, of White Beech, Saskatchewan.
Commemorated on the St. Donat Memorial and RCAF Liberator III Memorial.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
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Newspaper Clipping
This newspaper clipping appeared in a 1946 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, Charlottetown, PEI. The airplane mentioned in the article was a Liberator aircraft # 3701 enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec. It crashed and burned on the west side of a foothill of Black Mountain in Quebec. There is a Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain that was erected in memory of the twenty four gallant lads who lost their lives there. -
St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery
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Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain
A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians. -
Close-Up of Memorial Plaque
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Inscription
Warrant Officer Class II JOSEPH ALEXANDER BARABONOFF is commemorated on this panel of the Ottawa Memorial. He is one of 24 members of the RCAF, who were killed when the Liberator bomber in which they were flying from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec, crashed into Black Mountain, near St. Donat, Quebec on October 20, 1943. The plane wreckage was not found until June 1946. All of the airmen listed on this panel died in this crash. -
Newspaper Clipping
List of airmen killed in this plane crash. Source: Globe and Mail, November 4, 1943. -
Dedication Panel
Dedicatory inscription at the Ottawa Memorial -
Ottawa Memorial Panel
The Ottawa Memorial -
Photo of Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
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Grave marker
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Grave marker
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Attestation Paper
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Document
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Document
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Document
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Ottawa Memorial ... In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Barabonoff is also commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Alexander Barabonoff
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 134 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. DONAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY Quebec, Canada
The 24 Royal Canadian Air Force casualties were previously buried in the isolated grave site at nearby Black Mountain.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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