Military Service:-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Air Gunner
Service Number: R/53908
Age: 22
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 103 Squadron
Date and Place of Enlistment: 31 May 1940 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Leo J. and Janet Carey of Ottawa.
Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey is commemorated on Page 63 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
He was formerly commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial (Panel 103), in Surrey, England.
On 24 June 2014, the Canadian Defence Department announced that the remains of a Second World War airman found in a German lake in 2008 have been identified as those of Flight Sgt. John Joseph Carey of Ottawa. 22-year-old Carey was the front air gunner in an RAF Halifax bomber when it took off, from the Lincolnshire RAF Station Elsham Wolds, for a raid against Germany on Aug. 28, 1942. The plane was shot down by a fighter aircraft and crashed in Laacher See, a lake south of Bonn, Germany.
On 9 July 2014, Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey was laid to rest, with full military honours, in the Rheinberg War Cemetery, in Germany.
Military Service:-
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Air Gunner
Service Number: R/53908
Age: 22
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 103 Squadron
Date and Place of Enlistment: 31 May 1940 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Leo J. and Janet Carey of Ottawa.
Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey is commemorated on Page 63 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
He was formerly commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial (Panel 103), in Surrey, England.
On 24 June 2014, the Canadian Defence Department announced that the remains of a Second World War airman found in a German lake in 2008 have been identified as those of Flight Sgt. John Joseph Carey of Ottawa. 22-year-old Carey was the front air gunner in an RAF Halifax bomber when it took off, from the Lincolnshire RAF Station Elsham Wolds, for a raid against Germany on Aug. 28, 1942. The plane was shot down by a fighter aircraft and crashed in Laacher See, a lake south of Bonn, Germany.
On 9 July 2014, Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey was laid to rest, with full military honours, in the Rheinberg War Cemetery, in Germany.
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