In memory of

Pilot Officer

Ronald Elliott Johnstone

who died on 30 Jan 1944

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 576 Squadron, Royal Air Force
  Rank Pilot Officer
  Service number J87253
  Date of death 19440130
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  J87253 Pilot Officer (No. 576 Squadron RAF bomb aimer) Ronald Elliott Johnstone (b.1918) of Sudbury, Sudbury district, Ontario, was KIA 19440130 and is buried at Berlin 1939-45 war cemetery, Germany. Johnstone's Lancaster was lost during a night raid on Berlin. He was the son of Arthur Edward and Macil Irene (Elliott) Johnstone who came from Owen Sound, Grey Co., Ontario, to homestead SW34-10-16-W2 northeast of Yellow Grass in 1902. Ron was born at Weyburn and worked as a miner for Inco at Sudbury for a year before enlisting at North Bay, Nipissing district, late in 1941.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 98 - Scott
  Cemetery or memorial location Berlin 1939-45 war cemetery, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany    

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  Honour roll location(s) Yellow Grass
  Geo-memorial Johnstone Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 56.8833°N / 106.3167°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 74B16
  Geo-memorial details Adjoining Haultain Lake to the northeast.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19181231
  Place of birth Weyburn    
  Date of enlistment 19411121
  Place of enlistment North Bay, Nipissing district, Ontario    
  Residence on enlistment Sudbury, Sudbury district, Ontario    
  Occupation miner
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