Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper Clipping – From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

Photo of FRANKLIN ELWOOD JENKINS – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Letter of Recommendation – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Letter of Recommendation – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Attestation Paper – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Attestation Paper – 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 – Warrant Officer Class I Franklin Elwood Jenkins as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON.

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.

Photo of Franklin Jenkins

Franklin and his date

Franklin Jenkins home for some leave

Parents Visit Cairn on Black Mountain – Milton and Elizabeth Jenkins along with George Marr visit the Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain at the site of the crash that claimed their sons lives

St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery

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

Close-Up of Memorial Plaque