Searching for details about the Canadian base at Eastbourne

[Darrell Zinck]

Hi Phil

Enjoy your trip.

As for the Canadians killed in that raid, a quick look at the Canadian Virtual War Memorial for 11 Aug '42 reveals 24 Canadians died that day.

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/rememb...&submit=Search

9 of them are RCAMC and are buried in Brookwood. So possibly:

Cannon,
Carlington,
Cooke,
Gagnon,
Levesque,
Parker,
Wade,
Winters,
Worthylake.


Hope that is some small help.

regards
Darrell

[Phil Bristow]

Hi Darrell,
Thanks for your detailed research.
It's interesting that there are 9 names from the Medical Corps.
8 are noted in Dad's letter and the Eastbourne Herald.
Cannon, Carlington, Cooke, Levesque and Parker are specifically #9 Field Ambulance, so they were probably among those killed.

One of the other four was probably killed at the front.

Then again, there's a possibility that not all of the 8 were from the RCAMC.

It is sad to note that most of the others were RCAF.
Phil.