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Son of Walter Oliver Riddell and Susan Jane Riddell, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
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Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Sergeant RAYMOND REID RIDDELL Royal Canadian Air Force, is one of 21 men commemorated on this plaque, placed In Loving Memory of the Men of St Lukes Parish who gave their lives in the World War II, in St Luke’s Anglican Church, Ottawa, Ontario. He went missing during air operations on July 12, 1943. He has no known grave and is commemorated by name on the RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey, United Kingdom.
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Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Sergeant RAYMOND REID RIDDELL was reported Missing After Air Operations Overseas in the 657th R.C.A.F Casualty List published in the Globe and Mail on August 19, 1943.
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Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Sergeant RAYMOND REID RIDDELL was declared Previously Missing on Active Service, Now Officially Presumed Dead, in the Department of National Defense for Air Casualty List No:. 881 of the Royal Canadian Air Force, published in the Globe and Mail on May 13, 1944.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell
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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From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Sergeant RAYMOND REID RIDDELL Royal Canadian Air Force, is one of 21 men commemorated on this plaque, placed In Loving Memory of the Men of St Lukes Parish who gave their lives in the World War II, in St Luke’s Anglican Church, Ottawa, Ontario. He went missing during air operations on July 12, 1943. He has no known grave and is commemorated by name on the RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey, United Kingdom.
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Sergeant RAYMOND REID RIDDELL was reported Missing After Air Operations Overseas in the 657th R.C.A.F Casualty List published in the Globe and Mail on August 19, 1943.
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Sergeant RAYMOND REID RIDDELL was declared Previously Missing on Active Service, Now Officially Presumed Dead, in the Department of National Defense for Air Casualty List No:. 881 of the Royal Canadian Air Force, published in the Globe and Mail on May 13, 1944.
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 207 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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