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Son of John Clare and Hazel Jane Johnston, of Islington, Ontario; husband of Edithe M. Johnston, of Toronto. Ontario.
Commemorated on the St. Donat Memorial and RCAF Liberator III Memorial.
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Corporal Alec Clare Johnston
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.
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Corporal Alec Clare Johnston
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Corporal Alec Clare Johnston
A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians.
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Corporal Alec Clare Johnston
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Corporal Alec Clare Johnston
From the Toronto Telegram June 1946. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Corporal Alec Clare Johnston
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.
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Corporal Alec Clare Johnston
Corporal Alec Clare Johnston as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON
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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.
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A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians.
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From the Toronto Telegram June 1946. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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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.
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Corporal Alec Clare Johnston as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 175 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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