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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/19610
Age:
23
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
433 Sqdn.
Death:
March 31, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
11. G. 1.
Additional information
Son of Earl Carman Awrey and of Edith Catherine Awrey (nee McLean), of Windsor, Ontario.
Awrey Island, Nunavet was named after Donald Awrey.
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Photo of DONALD MCLEAN AWREY
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of DONALD MCLEAN AWREY
PL-26818 You can't tell WO2 D.M. Awrey navigator with 433 Porcupine squadron of the RCAF 6 Bomber Group that there is anything unlucky about the number 13. The Windsor airman is just getting ready to draw a line through the number after making his 13th over Berlin as the Porkies celebrated their adoption by the Tisdale and Timmins townships of Porcupine. -
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Pilot Officer Donald McLean Awrey is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Donald McLean Awrey is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donald Mclean Awrey
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donald Mclean Awrey
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donald Mclean Awrey
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donald Mclean Awrey
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donald Mclean Awrey
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donald Mclean Awrey
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donald Mclean Awrey
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Donald Mclean Awrey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 240 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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