- 1956, Thursday August 30, The Carleton Place Canadian front page
Flt Lt R. Gilmour Died Suddenly Thursday In Winnipeg
WINNIPEG, August 24 ? Flight Lieutenant Ronald A. Gilmour, 44, died Thursday in Deer Lodge Hospital. Born in Vancouver, he attended school at Almonte, Ont, and enlisted in the RCAF at Ottawa, in 1929 as an apprentice airman. In 1936 he received his wings as an NCO pilot and in 1939 he received his commission. During the Second World War he served at many air force stations in Canada and overseas. He was a Staff Officer Air Training at RCAF's 14 Training Group Headquarters in Winnipeg from February, 1952 until his death. F/L Gilmour is survived by his parents, Mr and Mrs H.D. Gilmour, Carleton Place; his wife Adelaide, and four children, Barten, 17, Wendy 15, Terrence, 13, and Christopher, 9 of 431 Moorgate, Winnipeg; two brothers, Victor, with the RCAF at St Sylvestre, Que, and Dawson of Peterborough; and four sisters, Mrs Gordon Erratt, Vancouver, Mrs Charles Godfrey, Carleton Place, and Mrs N. Mahara, and Mrs John Coulter, of Ottawa. A Military service was conducted at the Protestant Chapel at RCAF Station Winnipeg, at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The body arrived in Carleton Place on Monday and the funeral took place from the Alan R. Barker Funeral Home, McArthur avenue, to Memorial Park United Church. Service was conducted jointly by Rev H. Giffin and Flt Lt the Rev H.F. Currie. Interment was made in the Auld Kirk Cemetery, Almonte. The Carleton Place Legion conducted service at the graveside. Honourary pallbearers from the RCAF Station Uplands were Flt Lts W.C. Craile, O.M. Alier, A.W. Nelson, S.L. Poulin, W.B. Adair and J.W. Stants. Honour guard, under Lew Harthen, Legion President, consisted of Doug Lancaster, Ernie Halliday, G.W. Comba, Willys Armour, Frank Muff, Roy McKittrick, Jock Mailey, Ron Wing, Herb Cornell, all of Carleton Place and George Comba of Almonte. Active pallbearers were: Harry Johnston of Ottawa, Clifford Milford, Arnold Julian, Harold Dowdall, James Patterson and Ernie Foote.
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