Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Douglas Julian Sale
In memory of:
Squadron Leader Douglas Julian Sale
March 20, 1944
Military Service
J/9929
30
Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
35 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Distinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Service Order and Bar
Additional Information
Son of Julian and Editha Sale.
Commemorated on Page 436 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY
Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
1. G. 8.
Choloy is a village and commune in the Department of the Meurthe-et-Moselle, 28 kilometres west of Nancy and some 5 kilometres west of Toul, a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy. The village is south of the River Moselle on the minor road (D11B) from Toul to the neighbouring village of Foug. The CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY is 3 kilometres west of Toul on the north side of the D11B road. The Choloy War Cemetery is the last resting place of casualties from the First and Second World Wars and is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is also the final resting place for many Royal Canadian Air Force members and their families who died while serving in Europe as part of 1 Air Division between 1953 and 1967 and other Service Members serving with NATO in Germany following Canada's departure from France.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Memorial – Squadron Leader Douglas Julian Sale is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Memorial – Squadron Leader Douglas Julian Sale is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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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 -
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Photo of DOUGLAS JULIAN SALE – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Attestation paper – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of DOUGLAS JULIAN SALE – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram June 1943.. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram November 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture. Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram June 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Owen Sound Sun Times October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Douglas Julian Sale -
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Newspaper clipping – TORONTO STAR PAGES OF THE PAST 1944 March 1. Sale's brother returns. -
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Press Clipping – Source: Globe and Mail October 8, 1943 -
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Press Clipping – Globe and Mail February 2, 1944 -
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Press Clipping – Source: Globe and Mail February 23, 1944 -
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Press Clipping – Source: Globe and Mail June 28, 1944 -
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Press Clipping – Source: Globe and Mail October 21, 1944 -
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Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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