My wife’s great uncle, Flying Officer Roy Tranter, joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 at the age of 29 and graduated at No. 1 Air Observers School in Malton, July 8, 1943, as a navigator. He went overseas in the same month. While serving in England with a Bomber Squadron of Lancasters, he was promoted Flying Officer. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, his plane had been bombing targets along the coasts of France, and on the way back to its base, was shot down. He was 31 and married. He was laid to rest in Brookwood Military Cemetery in England.