In memory of

Pilot Officer

Raymond Purdy Dezall

who died on 29 May 1942


Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit Ferry Command, Royal Air Force
  Rank Pilot Officer
  Service number J8945
  Date of death 19420529
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  J8945 Pilot Officer (RAF Ferry Command pilot) Raymond Purdy Dezall (b.1916) of Vancouver, British Columbia, was KIA 19420529 and is commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial for airmen operating in the western hemisphere who died with no known grave. Dezall's Hudson was lost at sea on a flight out of Dorval. He was born at Vancouver, raised at Mistawasis and attended high school at Prince Albert. He farmed in the Mont Nebo area before moving to Vancouver in 1938 to work as a bookkeeper in his uncle's jewellery store, eventually enlisting in the RCAF there early in 1941.

Brother of AE Dezall. They were the sons of Robert and Ethel May Dezall (Fleurwelling) who farmed in the Mistawasis district south of Mont Nebo and later retired to Edmonton.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 494 - Canwood
  Cemetery or memorial location Ottawa Memorial, Ontario    

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  Honour roll location(s) Canwood
  Geo-memorial Dezall Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 59.1°N / 103.2667°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 64M3
  Geo-memorial details South of Phelps Lake.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19160729
  Place of birth Vancouver, British Columbia    
  Date of enlistment 19410221
  Place of enlistment Vancouver, British Columbia    
  Residence on enlistment Vancouver, British Columbia    
  Occupation bookkeeper
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