Last Post - Sergeant Gordon Oswald Prime

Source: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers

Photo below of the Gordon Oswald Prime Grave Marker taken by Cameron Clare Campbell at

Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, United Kingdom and submitted to the Canada Remembers project.

The few images at left show Gordon Oswald Prime with his friends. He and his good friend Eric Alvin Kidney trained together in Honeybourne O.T.U. in the UK and were both killed in a mid-air collision. Please click here to read about Sergeant Alvin Eric Kidney.

Cameron Clare Campbell wrote in his journal of the accident that took this young man's life at Honeybourne in a collision with another plane over a bombing range.

Details of the crash are as follows:

"11/08/1944 Wellingtons LP618 and MF591, both of 24 OTU collided in mid-air over the Longden bombing range.

P/O J Shwaikoski, RCAF was thrown out of MF591 by the collision and killed.

LP618 lost a wing and entered a spin. Miraculously, F/Lt S M Bruce RCAF managed to bale out safely before the aircraft hit HT (high tension) cables and crashed at Hanley Swan.

F/Sgt H G Round RCAF,

Sgt L H Fraser RCAF,

Sgt L M Lysak RCAF,

Sgt L. C. Lamb RCAF,

Sgt G O Prime RCAF and

Sgt A E Kidney RCAF all died in the crash.

Meanwhile, F/O W W McSween RCAF managed to nurse MF591 back to a crash-landing at Honeybourne, also saving the lives of P/O McGuire RCAF, Sgt Scott RCAF and Sgt Fullerton RCAF." 

Source: http://www.couplandbell.com/marg/crashes1944.htm

Click here to read the ""They Shall Grow Not Old" entry for Sergeant Gordon Oswald Prime.

Click on the link below to see an image of the certificate issued by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in memory of Gordon Oswald Prime. Certificate

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, asked Rudyard Kipling the British author and Poet to select a phrase to be used in their memorials. Kipling had also lost a son in battle, and he chose "Their Name Liveth For Evermore" from Ecclesiasticus 44:14 "Their bodies are buried in peace, but their name liveth for evermore."

At left is an image from Canada Remembers of the Gordon Oswald Prime Grave Marker in Brookwood Military Cemetery, UK

The inscription is a Per Ardua Ad Astra logo and beneath that

R149547 SERGEANT

G.O. PRIME

AIR GUNNER

ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE

11TH AUGUST, 1944

The photo at left of the Gordon Oswald Prime Grave Marker was taken by Cameron Clare Campbell and submitted to the Canada Remembers site by Lloyd Campbell and Susan Campbell, son and daughter-in-law of Cameron Clare Campbell.

Canada's Bomber Memorial contains the names of 10,063 brave Canadian members of Bomber Command who died during World War II. To see images of the beautiful Memorial at Nanton, Alberta, click here. At the middle of the second column of this panel one can see the name of Gordon Oswald Prime.

This image from Canada's Bomber Command Memorial was taken by Lloyd and Susan Campbell.