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Son of Herbert Clarence and Barbara Ann Colter, of Crystal City, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant James Cecil Colter
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Cecil Colter
Photo of FS Colter while at home (Crystal City, MB) while on leave prior
to his deployment overseas.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Cecil Colter
FS Colter's official photograph taken prior to his deployment overseas. He failed to return from sortie, 28
August 1942. Sergeant R.J. Blenkarn and FS J.C. Colter were killed. 12 Bostons bombed Abbeville airfield, 4 Mosquitos to Holland and Germany.
Bremen reports one Mosquito dropping 3 bombs and scoring a direct hit on the
foundry of the Vulkan shipyard, which stopped production for several days. 1
Boston and 1 Mosquito lost.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Cecil Colter
announcement of news that he was MIA, published in the Winnipeg Free Press on 07 Oct 1942.
Image gallery
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Photo of FS Colter while at home (Crystal City, MB) while on leave prior to his deployment overseas.
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FS Colter's official photograph taken prior to his deployment overseas. He failed to return from sortie, 28 August 1942. Sergeant R.J. Blenkarn and FS J.C. Colter were killed. 12 Bostons bombed Abbeville airfield, 4 Mosquitos to Holland and Germany. Bremen reports one Mosquito dropping 3 bombs and scoring a direct hit on the foundry of the Vulkan shipyard, which stopped production for several days. 1 Boston and 1 Mosquito lost.
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announcement of news that he was MIA, published in the Winnipeg Free Press on 07 Oct 1942.
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Page 65 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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