Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Photo of STEPHEN ANDREW SANDERSON – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Owen Sound Sun Times October 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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 – Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON

Photo of Stephen Andrew Sanderson – He enlisted in the RCAF on October 1940, gained his pilot's wings at Dunnville Service Flying Training School and instructed at Trenton and Aylmer RCAF stations. He was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1942 for meritorious service when he was involved in a crash landing at Alymer Air Station. He was posted to Halifax with #10 North Atlantic Squadron, Coastal Command flying Liberator Bombers. His aircraft failed to complete a flight from Gander NFLD to Dorval, Quebec.

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