Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Photo of ROBERT WILLIAM MACDONALD – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of ROBERT WILLIAM MACDONALD – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of ROBERT WILLIAM MACDONALD – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Letter – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Letter – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Death Certificate – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of Robert MacDonald – 10th Squadron.

Cemetery – Cross at Liberator Harry crash site.

Memorial – Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave.

Memorial – Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON

Newspaper clipping – From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Telegraph Journal newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Memorial – Memorial located at cemetery in Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, Quebec. Taken in August 2021.

Newspaper Clipping – This newspaper clipping appeared in a 1946 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, Charlottetown, PEI. The airplane mentioned in the article was a Liberator aircraft # 3701 enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec. It crashed and burned on the west side of a foothill of Black Mountain in Quebec. There is a Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain that was erected in memory of the twenty four gallant lads who lost their lives there.

St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery

Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain – A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians.

Close-Up of Memorial Plaque

Grave marker – Taken at Woodstock Rural Cementery on the Houlton Road; Woodstock, New Brunswick.