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Donald Archibald Blue

Donald Archibald Blue[1]

Male 1920 - 1942  (21 years)

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  • Name Donald Archibald Blue  [1, 2
    Birth 27 Jun 1920  Montréal, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Enlisted 13 Jun 1940 
    Fact 13 Jun 1940  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Address:
    196 Cobourg Street 
    Residence 13 Jun 1940  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Address:
    196 Cobourg Street 
    Death 6 May 1942  Wellesbourne, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
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    Donald Archibald Blue
    Obittuary 7 May 1942  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Fact #20 Operational Training Unit  [2
    Fact Flight Sergeant  [1, 2
    Fact R/54195  [2
    Fact Royal Canadian Air Force  [2
    Burial Aft 6 May 1942  Warwickshire, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Address:
    STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CEMETERY 
    • Grave Reference: Grave 4180.
      Location: Startford-Upon-Avon Cemetery contains 22 First World War burials, made mainly from the hospital at Clopton House. During the Second World War, there was a contingent of the Royal Canadian Air Force based at nearby Wellesboune Mountford and of the 137 Second World War burials (most of them forming a war graves plot), 97 are of Canadian airmen. The cemetery also contains 15 war graves of other nationalities.
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    Donald Archibald Blue
    Person ID I125296  Lowertown
    Last Modified 13 Jun 2021 

    Mother Maude Deacon, Rankin,   b. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F48016  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Donald Archibald Blue

    Documents
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    Donald Archibald Blue
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    Donald Archibald Blue

  • Notes 
    • Son of Walter Edward and Maude Deacon (nee Rankin) Blue, of Ottawa, Ontario. As a former member of The Royal Ottawa Golf Club, Aylmer, Quebec; Sergeant Blue is commemorated on a plaque in the entrance to the club. [2]
    • Commemorated on of the Second World War Book of Remembrance .
    • Citation(s): Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45. [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S3421] .
      Canada, World War II Records and Service Files of War Dead, 1939-1947

    2. [S3438] (Reliability: 3).
      The Canadian Virtual War Memorial (CVWM)

    3. [S3453] (Reliability: 3).