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Military service
Service number:
J/25983
Age:
20
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
June 17, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
54. E. 7.
Additional information
Son of Frederick and Alice Whitby, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Frederick Whitby
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper Clipping
Flying Officer RICHARD REGINALD RICKY WHITBY, Flying Officer DONALD ROSS GILCHRIST, Flying Officer PHILIP HORACE DUVAL, Sergeant ARTHUR KENNETH HRYCENKO, and Sergeant OTIS WILFRID LIBBY are listed in this excerpt of the Department of National Defense for Air Causalty List No 925 as having been Killed on Active Service Overseas. They were killed on June 17, 1944 and are buried in adjacent graves (Section 54. E.10 to E. 6) at 9 BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, Surrey, United Kingdom and presumably died when the plane they were flying, crashed in England. -
Inscription
Flying Officer RICHARD REGINALD RICKY WHITBY, Flying Officer DONALD ROSS GILCHRIST, Flying Officer PHILIP HORACE DUVAL, Sergeant ARTHUR KENNETH HRYCENKO, and Sergeant OTIS WILFRID LIBBY were all killed on June 17, 1944 as indicated by these inscritions on their grave markers. They are buried in adjacent graves (Section 54. E.10 to E. 6) at 9 BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, Surrey, United Kingdom and presumably died when the plane they were flying crashed in England. -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Whitby is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Whitby is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
For the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Frederick Whitby
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Frederick Whitby
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Frederick Whitby
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Frederick Whitby
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Frederick Whitby
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Frederick Whitby
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Frederick Whitby
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Frederick Whitby
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Richard Reginald (Ricky) Frederick Whitby
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 476 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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