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Remembering World War II
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Donald Clifford Bissell
Donald Clifford Bissell
Flying Officer
J/24280
418 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
August 21, 1913
Halifax, NS
March 5, 1942
Halifax
Sales Manager/Commercial Traveller Maritime Provinces
Single
United Church
Olin Cumming Bissell (Father) Montreal, Quebec
January 3, 1944
30
Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom
Panel 245
Commemorated on page 251 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on May 27
On January 3, 1944 at 3:13 am, Mosquito VI Intrder LR.268,
left RCAF Station Bradwell Bay, located 15 km east of Maldon,
Essex, England on a sortie to Diepholte with a crew of three that
included F/O Donald Bissell serving as Navigator. The aircraft
failed to return from the operation. The three crew members
were listed as missing and presumed dead.