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Military service
Service number:
R/176939
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
50 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
March 14, 1921
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
August 27, 1942
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
August 30, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave Sec. XV. 76-80.
Additional information
Son of Louis James MacDonald and Georgina Josephine MacDonald, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Photo of grave marker courtesy of Carin Olofsson<P> When it was lost, Lancaster ED588 of #50 (RAF) Sqn had completed 128 operations and had a total of 1152 hours. The last raid was to Konigsbergh on 29/30 Aug 44. The aircraft crashed at Vittsjo, Sweden, and the bomb load exploded. F/S MacDonald was Bomb Aimer and the only Canadian on board.<P> ED588 was one of four 50 Squadron Lancasters lost on this operation. -
Cemetery
Photo of Palsjo War Cemetery Courtesy of Carin Olofsson http://www.hembygdshistoria.se/palsjo/cw2.htm -
Cross of Sacrifice
Photo of Cross of Sacrifice at Palsjo War Cemetery<P> Courtesy of Carin Olofsson http://www.hembygdshistoria.se/palsjo/cw2.htm -
Photo of Donald Alastair MacDonald
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Donald Alastair MacDonald
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Service Book
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Donald Alastair MacDonald
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 371 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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