Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer Philip Arthur Musgrave 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

Photo of PHILIP ARTHUR MUSGRAVE – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of PHILIP ARTHUR MUSGRAVE – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Grave marker – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Correspondence – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of Philip A. Musgrave – Philip A. Musgrave, Air Gunner, 405 Pathfinder Squadron. Killed August 17, 1944 over Denmark. Aircraft LQP was on the return leg of a bombing mission over Stettin harbour. Philip Musgrave is buried in Svino, Denmark. Phil was originally from Sydney, Nova Scotia. He will always be remembered!

Group Photo – Evaders return to Scotland September 1944. This photo was take at Leuchars Station.

Air Crew Members – 405 Squadron crew: (L-R) Philip A Musgrave (Air Gunner - killed in action August 17, 1944), Ross Wiens (Navigator); Ralph Rafter (Wireless Air Gunner); Bruce Durfee (Bomb Aimer); Denis Budd (Air Gunner); Jim Umschied (Flight Engineer); missing Bud Walter (Pilot)

Air Crew Members (2) – 405 Squadron crew (Back row) Bruce Durfee; Ralph Rafter; Denis Budd; Phil Musgrave; (Front Row) Jim Umshied; Ross Wiens; Bud Walter August 1944, Granston Lodge England.

Photo of Philip Arthur Musgrave – From the Sydney Academy Memorial booklet, published by the Student's Assembly in memory of former students who served during the Second World War. The original pictures were supplied by the Sydney Post-Record and the booklet was compiled by Jack Wilcox, class of 1946 and Donald Trivett, class of 1947. Additional Information courtesy of Floyd Williston: P/O Phillip Musgrave, age 21, was killed on August 17, 1944, when Lancaster PA 988, was shot down six miles north-west of Ringstedt, Denmark. P/O Musgrave was an air-gunner with from No.405 Pathfinder Squadron, on a raid to Kiel, and, though he bailed out before the aircraft crashed, his parachute failed to open. Four of his crew escaped capture and made it to Sweden, and then back to the UK.. He is buried in the Commonwealth Memorial Cemetery, near Svino, Denmark.

Letter from the Sydney Academy

Press Clipping

Press Clipping

Commemorative Album Cover

Commemorative poem