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Digital gallery of Warrant Officer John Murray Cluff
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer John Murray Cluff
From the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer John Murray Cluff
Cluff, John Murray - Flight Sergeant. Born 2nd October, 1917, at Saskatoon, Sask. Educated at St. Michael's School for Boys, Victoria, B.C., and Nutana Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon. Entered the service of the Bank 17th August, 1936. Served at Saskatoon and other branches in Saskatchewan. Enlisted 15th July, 1940, from Kelvingron in R.C.A.F. Sergeant Observer in June, 1941; Flight Sergeant later in 1941. Overseas in 1941 with Air Observers Corps.
Reported missing after air operations in December, 1941. Officially presumed dead July, 1942. <br><i>From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.</i>
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer John Murray Cluff
From the Toronto Star June 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Cluff, John Murray - Flight Sergeant. Born 2nd October, 1917, at Saskatoon, Sask. Educated at St. Michael's School for Boys, Victoria, B.C., and Nutana Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon. Entered the service of the Bank 17th August, 1936. Served at Saskatoon and other branches in Saskatchewan. Enlisted 15th July, 1940, from Kelvingron in R.C.A.F. Sergeant Observer in June, 1941; Flight Sergeant later in 1941. Overseas in 1941 with Air Observers Corps. Reported missing after air operations in December, 1941. Officially presumed dead July, 1942. <br><i>From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.</i>
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From the Toronto Star June 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 26 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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