Currie, Donald Russell (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-December-23

Pilot Officer Donald Russell Currie RCAF

Birth Date: 1923

Born:

Parents: Son of Russell H. Currie and Beatrice Mab Currie, of Owen Sound, Ontario.

Spouse:

Home: Owen Sound, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

35 (PFF) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Uno Anima Agimus We Act with One Accord

Base

RAF Graveley

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Navigator

Service Numbers

J/93665
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Home
Google MapOwen Sound, Ontario
Target
Google MapCologne Germany
Final Burial
Google MapBrookwood Military Cemetery
Plot 56 Row B Grave 7

Took off from Graveley on an operation to Cologne Germany.

Outbound from England at 10,000 feet on a daylight operation to Cologne, Germany, collided with another 35 Sqn Lancaster (PB-683 TL-H) and crashed into the English Channel off South Foreland, Kent.

Killed of PB-678 includes Currie: Pilot Officer James McGee RCAF J/95373 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 251. Pilot Officer Richard Joseph Clarke (Eire) RAF pilot KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 210. Sergeant John Charles Mays RAF KIA Harrow Weald Cemetery, Section C. Grave 43. Pilot Officer Joseph William Webb RAAF KIA Brookwood Military Cemetery Plot 4. Row O. Grave 17. Pilot Officer Robert Keith Norsworthy RAAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 258. Pilot Officer Thomas Eugene Craddock RAAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 258.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)