E Hale]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Canada]]> Québec]]> Québec--Montréal]]> 1943-01-22]]> E Hale]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frances Grundy]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Southampton]]> Canada]]> Québec]]> Québec--Montréal]]> 1944-12-28]]> Québec--Montréal]]> John was born in 1919 to a poor but educated family. He was the youngest of eight children. At the age of 17 he started training as a teacher but war had broken out. He was accepted by the RAF as aircrew and after brief training in Jamaica was shipped to New Orleans then onward to Canada.
He trained as a Navigator and after crew selection at Kinloss, training on Whitleys he was sent to Pocklington, Yorkshire.
He completed 33 operations - there is great detail about the operations.
After the war he transferred to Transport Command and flew Hastings and Comets around the world. He was a successful athlete for the RAF.
Included is a eulogy for John written by his nephew, Mark Johnson.

An appendix covers a colleague, John Ebanks who served as a bomb aimer at RAF Oakington. He undertook 50 operations.


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W Holmes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> Nova Scotia--Amherst]]> Québec--Montréal]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> Alberta--Calgary]]> Alberta--Innisfail]]> Saskatchewan--Estevan]]> Ontario--Ottawa]]> Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's]]> Ontario]]> Québec]]> Saskatchewan]]> Alberta]]> Newfoundland and Labrador]]> Nova Scotia]]> Manitoba]]> 1942-07]]> 1942-08]]> 1942-09]]> 1942-10]]> 1942-11]]> 1942-12]]> 1943-01]]> 1943-02]]> 1943-03]]> 1943-04]]>
Photo 2 is a two storey wooden house taken from the side of the road.

Identification kindly provided by Gianluca Mazzanti of the Archeologi dell’Aria research group.]]>
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Photo 2 is a tow truck attaching a hook to the back of a saloon car, captioned 'Result of ten hours in Montreal'.
Photo 3 is a Red Ensign on a ship, captioned 'The Old Red Duster'.
Photo 4 is a convoy crossing the Atlantic.
Photo 5 is thee airmen standing on a ship. Two are wearing live vests.
Photo 6 is Sam in civilian clothes standing in a snowy garden.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PSaundersEJ20010072]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> Québec--Montréal]]> Québec]]> Nova Scotia]]>
Peter Peck]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> Québec--Montréal]]> North America--Niagara Falls]]> Québec]]> New Brunswick]]> Manitoba]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1944-04-07]]> 1944-05-07]]> Photo 1 is Caleches at the Lookout, Mount Royal.
Photo 2 is the Canadian Pacific Railway Station.
Photo 3 is The Duchess of Richmond and Harbor Bridge.
Photo 4 is the view of Montreal from Mount Royal.
Photo 5 is the Sun Life Building and St James Cathedral.
Photo 6 is Fontaine Park at night.
Photo 7 is the Illuminated Cross on Mount Royal.
Photo 8 is St Catherine Street West.
Photo 9 is St Joseph Oratory.
Photo 10 is Notre Dame Cathedral.
The photograph is of St James Cathedral.]]>
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Photo 1 is an airman in his hotel bed.
Photo 2 is three airmen sitting on a balustrade.
Photo 3 is a misty view over Montreal.
Photo 4 is the cannon outside the Sun Life building.
Photo 5 is three airmen posed at the cannon.
Photo 6 is the cannon.
Photo 7 is a view of buildings and park benches.
Photo 8 and 9 are an airman in a horse drawn carriage.
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