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This database lists all known RCAF flying-related personnel who served 1939 - 1945 and onwards in many cases.
You may also want to check RCAF entries in the Allied Losses and Incidents Database.
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"Conversion from the original data held as images of old teletype sheets must have taken Major Paradie years.
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14 March 1941 - Enlisted in the RCAF - London, Ontario
28 May 1941 - Victoriaville, Quebec
14 July 1941 - Goderich, Ontario
13 Sep 1941 - Borden, Ontario
7 Jan 1942 - Bournemouth, UK
2 March 1942 - RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, UK
14 Apr 1942 - RAF Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, Scotland
16 June 1942 - RAF Catterick, North Yorkshire, UK
11 Oct 1943 - RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire, UK
11 March 1944 - RAF Holmsley South, Hampshire, UK
7 July 1944 - Commanding Officer - France
22 Sep 1944 - End of tour
28 Oct 1944 - Repatriated to Canada
6 Feb 1945 - Released from the RCAF

(Photo: 403 Sqn, 4 Nov 1942 - on wing L to R, F/Sgt Lane & Sgt Dowding, standing, L to R, F/Sgt Rawson & Sgt Hawkey.)
- Distinguished Flying Cross - No.403 Squadron - Award effective 22 October 1943 as per London Gazette dated 29 October 1943 and AFRO 2457/43 dated 26 November 1943.
- Bar to Distinguished Flying Cross - No.442 Squadron - Award effective 1 December 1944 as per London Gazette of that date and AFRO 239/45 dated 9 February 1945.
- Deceased on 2 April 2003, in Sarnia, Ontario.
- Brother of J/46041 P/O John Frederick Dowding, KIFA on 17 Oct 1944 with 19 OTU.
(Information courtesy Francois Dutil)
2 DowdingJohn FrederickP/O
KIFA
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4 Aug 1943 - Enlisted in the RCAF - Sarnia, Ontario
20 Sep 1943 - Regina, Saskatchewan
13 March 1944 - Macdonald, Manitoba
21 June 1944 - Maintland, Nova Scotia
Aug 1944 - Bournemouth, UK
8 Aug 1944 - RAF Kinloss, Scotland
17 Oct 1944 - Crashed during training mission
Commemorated Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery, Sec. G. Row A. Grave 8. United Kingdom.
Son of Ivan Louis and Rhea Jean (nee Khron) Dowding, of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
Brother of J/16027 S/L Harry James Dowding DFC & bar.
(Information courtesy Francois Dutil)

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