FIERCE, FIERY WARRIORS FOUGHT UPON THE CLOUDS,
IN RANKS AND SQUADRONS.
LET THEIR REMEMBRANCE BE AS LASTING AS THE
LAND THEY
HONOURED.
Flying Officer Cushing lost his life in the crash of 427 Squadron's North American F-86 Sabre (#23484) fighter aircraft while he was practicing flight manoeuvers over the 3 (F) Wing base.
Military Service:-
Rank: Flying Officer
Service Number: 233152
Age: 22
Force: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit: 427 (Fighter) Squadron, 3 (F) Wing, Zweibrücken, Germany
Son of Norman Ray and Florence Oretha (née Olsen) Cushing of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada [his parents married in 1933]; brother of Wayne, Robert, Malcolm, Michael, Elizabeth, Patricia Cushing and Shirley Campbell.
Flying Officer Ray Arnold Cushing is commemorated on Page 85 of the 'In the Service of Canada' Book of Remembrance.
He is also remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Pembroke Cemetery in Pembroke, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
F/O R.A. CUSHING is one of 107 airmen's names inscribed on the Honour Roll on the Sabre Pilots Memorial at RCAF Memorial Museum in Trenton, Ontario, Canada; the unveiling ceremony of the Sabre Pilots Memorial took place on 19 June 1998.
IN RANKS AND SQUADRONS.
LET THEIR REMEMBRANCE BE AS LASTING AS THE
LAND THEY
HONOURED.
Flying Officer Cushing lost his life in the crash of 427 Squadron's North American F-86 Sabre (#23484) fighter aircraft while he was practicing flight manoeuvers over the 3 (F) Wing base.
Military Service:-
Rank: Flying Officer
Service Number: 233152
Age: 22
Force: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit: 427 (Fighter) Squadron, 3 (F) Wing, Zweibrücken, Germany
Son of Norman Ray and Florence Oretha (née Olsen) Cushing of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada [his parents married in 1933]; brother of Wayne, Robert, Malcolm, Michael, Elizabeth, Patricia Cushing and Shirley Campbell.
Flying Officer Ray Arnold Cushing is commemorated on Page 85 of the 'In the Service of Canada' Book of Remembrance.
He is also remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Pembroke Cemetery in Pembroke, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
F/O R.A. CUSHING is one of 107 airmen's names inscribed on the Honour Roll on the Sabre Pilots Memorial at RCAF Memorial Museum in Trenton, Ontario, Canada; the unveiling ceremony of the Sabre Pilots Memorial took place on 19 June 1998.
FIERCE, FIERY WARRIORS FOUGHT UPON THE CLOUDS,
IN RANKS AND SQUADRONS.
LET THEIR REMEMBRANCE BE AS LASTING AS THE
LAND THEY
HONOURED.
Flying Officer Cushing lost his life in the crash of 427 Squadron's North American F-86 Sabre (#23484) fighter aircraft while he was practicing flight manoeuvers over the 3 (F) Wing base.
Military Service:-
Rank: Flying Officer
Service Number: 233152
Age: 22
Force: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit: 427 (Fighter) Squadron, 3 (F) Wing, Zweibrücken, Germany
Son of Norman Ray and Florence Oretha (née Olsen) Cushing of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada [his parents married in 1933]; brother of Wayne, Robert, Malcolm, Michael, Elizabeth, Patricia Cushing and Shirley Campbell.
Flying Officer Ray Arnold Cushing is commemorated on Page 85 of the 'In the Service of Canada' Book of Remembrance.
He is also remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Pembroke Cemetery in Pembroke, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
F/O R.A. CUSHING is one of 107 airmen's names inscribed on the Honour Roll on the Sabre Pilots Memorial at RCAF Memorial Museum in Trenton, Ontario, Canada; the unveiling ceremony of the Sabre Pilots Memorial took place on 19 June 1998.
IN RANKS AND SQUADRONS.
LET THEIR REMEMBRANCE BE AS LASTING AS THE
LAND THEY
HONOURED.
Flying Officer Cushing lost his life in the crash of 427 Squadron's North American F-86 Sabre (#23484) fighter aircraft while he was practicing flight manoeuvers over the 3 (F) Wing base.
Military Service:-
Rank: Flying Officer
Service Number: 233152
Age: 22
Force: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit: 427 (Fighter) Squadron, 3 (F) Wing, Zweibrücken, Germany
Son of Norman Ray and Florence Oretha (née Olsen) Cushing of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada [his parents married in 1933]; brother of Wayne, Robert, Malcolm, Michael, Elizabeth, Patricia Cushing and Shirley Campbell.
Flying Officer Ray Arnold Cushing is commemorated on Page 85 of the 'In the Service of Canada' Book of Remembrance.
He is also remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Pembroke Cemetery in Pembroke, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
F/O R.A. CUSHING is one of 107 airmen's names inscribed on the Honour Roll on the Sabre Pilots Memorial at RCAF Memorial Museum in Trenton, Ontario, Canada; the unveiling ceremony of the Sabre Pilots Memorial took place on 19 June 1998.
Inscription
(Inscription on Family Grave Monument-footstone-in the Pembroke Cemetery in Nove Scotia...)
IN MEMORY OF
F/O A. R. CUSHING R. C. A. F.
BORN DEC. 26, 1934
DIED AT ZWEIBRUCKEN
GERMANY, APR. 2, 1957.
BURIED AT CHOLOY, FRANCE.
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