Ozment, Donald Eric (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1941-December-27

Flight Sergeant Donald Eric Ozment RCAF

Birth Date: 1921

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Home: Edmonton, Alberta

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

77 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Esse Potius Quam Videri To be, rather than to seem

Base

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

R/61122

Final Burial
Google MapSt Jacobiparochie General Cemetery
Plot B Row 44 Grave 31
77 Squadron (Esse Potius Quam Videri). Whitley V aircraft Z 9306 shot down by night fighter during operations over Holland. Sgt(s) E. Fieldsend (RAF), R. Shuttleworth (RAF), and Pilot Officer C.A.C. Havelock (RAF) were also killed. One Canadian, Sergeant D.M. Godard, was taken Prisoner of War. Flight Sergeant Ozment had been slightly injured on March 5, 1941 in a flying accident near Juniata, Saskatchewan while training at 4 SFTS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Addendum: - The squadron was based at Leeming when Whitley aircraft Z 9306-S went missing. The four crew members who were killed are all buried at Het Bildt in graves B44.28 to B44.31. Detail from "Some of the Many" by Roy Walker, Kent, England.