Pilot Officer Crerar was one of six airmen killed in the crash of 10 RCAF Squadron's Douglas Digby I (#739) aircraft which was engaged in guarding a convoy as it passed through the Strait of Belle Isle (the waterway separating Newfoundland from the Labrador Peninsula). Not until August 1956 was the crash site located 20 miles east of Port Saunders, in Newfoundland (which was not yet a part of Canada when the aircraft went missing in 1942).
The airmen who perished in this aircraft accident were:-
Pilot Officer Douglas Earle COREY,
Pilot Officer George Taylor CRERAR,
Flight Sergeant Charles Harold FINNISS,
Pilot Officer Edwin PADDEN and
Pilot Officer Stanley St. George STUBBS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Pilot Officer
Trade: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Service Number: J/9404
Age: 28
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #10 RCAF North Atlantic Squadron (Gander, Newfoundland)
Son of John and Esther Crerar of Bright, Ontario, Canada; husband of Eleanor Louisa Crerar of Brantford, Ontario.
Pilot Officer George Taylor Crerar is commemorated on Page 67 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
And he is remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Princeton Cemetery in Princeton, Ontario.
Pilot Officer Crerar was one of six airmen killed in the crash of 10 RCAF Squadron's Douglas Digby I (#739) aircraft which was engaged in guarding a convoy as it passed through the Strait of Belle Isle (the waterway separating Newfoundland from the Labrador Peninsula). Not until August 1956 was the crash site located 20 miles east of Port Saunders, in Newfoundland (which was not yet a part of Canada when the aircraft went missing in 1942).
The airmen who perished in this aircraft accident were:-
Pilot Officer Douglas Earle COREY,
Pilot Officer George Taylor CRERAR,
Flight Sergeant Charles Harold FINNISS,
Pilot Officer Edwin PADDEN and
Pilot Officer Stanley St. George STUBBS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Pilot Officer
Trade: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Service Number: J/9404
Age: 28
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #10 RCAF North Atlantic Squadron (Gander, Newfoundland)
Son of John and Esther Crerar of Bright, Ontario, Canada; husband of Eleanor Louisa Crerar of Brantford, Ontario.
Pilot Officer George Taylor Crerar is commemorated on Page 67 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
And he is remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Princeton Cemetery in Princeton, Ontario.
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BELOVED HUSBAND OF
ELEANOR STEVENSON
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