Ross Meredith Dickie Sergeant R/281169 19 OTU, Royal Canadian Air Force March 6, 1926 Welland, Ontario October 7, 1943 No. 10 RCAF Recruiting Centre, Hamilton, Ontario Welland, Ontario 17 5 feet, 5 ½ inches Fair Brown Brown Single Crane Operator United Church Cora Dickie (Mother) August 30, 1944 18 Cadder Cemetery, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland Section C, Grave 4

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Ross Meredith Dickie was the son of Melrose Halbert Dickie (1895-1972) and Cora Evelyn (Olmstead) Dickie (b. 1899), and brother of Captain Richard Fowlke Dickie (1922-1945), Rodney Olmstead Dickie, and Ruth Virginia Dickie. His father, Major Melrose Dickie, served in the Canadian Army as staff commanding a Veteran’s Guard unit at the No. 133 Internment Camp in Lethbridge, Alberta. His brother, Captain Richard Dickie, served with the Lincoln and Welland Regiment with the Canadian Army overseas. He was killed in action on January 29, 1945; age 20. Ross enjoyed woodworking, radio work, and stamp collecting. In Scotland, among his possessions were various foreign stamps and a Jiffy Kodak camera. He also played baseball, hockey, basketball, and rugby. In 1942, he worked for Buffwell Engineering in Welland, and left there to work as a crane operator at Atlas Steels, until he enlisted in the RCAF in October of 1943. He departed Canada on June 16, 1944, and arrived in the UK on June 24th. He joined the No. 19 Operational Training Unit (19 OTU) on July 25, 1944, based at RAF Kinloss on the Moray Firth in Scotland. Tragically, Sergeant Ross Dickie was killed during air operations when the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V aircraft AD 712 (ZV-L), on which he was serving as Air Gunner, crashed east of Kippen in Stirlingshire. Whilst flying over the Gargunnock hills west of Stirling the aircraft encountered thick cloud and the pilot lost control. The aircraft was seen to dive out of the cloud at a steep angle, accompanied by fragments of the Whitley’s structure. The aircraft hit the ground and burst into flames resulting in the loss of the entire crew, 1 hour and 33 minutes into the flight. A funeral for Ross took place at RAF Bishopbriggs on September 4, 1944, and he was interred at the Cadder Cemetery in the town bearing the same name.