The Ottawa Memorial Project

Student Joseph Stanley Yurkowski joined the RCAF and became a WOAG. Aboard Ventura AE950, during a training flight, he and the pilot were lost near Grand Manan, Island in July 1942, during the pilot’s first solo flight doing the exercises.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Joseph-Yurkowski.html

Richard Brock Wylie was a mechanical engineer who had seventy books in one trunk of belongings. He became a pilot in the late 1930s with the RCAF. Piloting Bolingbroke 9007, he and his crew went missing over the Atlantic during a convoy es**rt patrol. While on the search for the plane and crew, another plane crashed on Sable Island, killing all aboard.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Richard-Wylie.html

Douglas Buchanan Wortley was catching a ride home, when aboard Anson 9818 was killed when the plane crashed into Old Settler Mountain, near Yale, BC.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Douglas-Wortley.html

Kenneth Beverley Woods was an athletic lab assistant prior to he becoming a navigator. He was lost aboard the Amerika.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Kenneth-Woods.html

Henry Raymond Woodman was a Wireless Air Gunner from Digby County, NS, aboard Hudson BW700, during air exercises when it crashed into the Bay of Fundy.

https://ottawamemorialproject.org/men/Henry-Woodman.html