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Airmen meet and remember. Group Capt. Leonard Cheshire, right, of the famed World War II Dambusters Squadron of the RAF visits with RCAF veteran Fred Brand in the veterans' wing of Sunnybrook Hospital yesterday. Cheshire, a Victoria Cross winner, has founded a World War Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief for which he hopes to raise $800 millions by Sept.3.
Airmen meet and remember. Group Capt. Leonard Cheshire, right, of the famed World War II Dambusters Squadron of the RAF visits with RCAF veteran Fred Brand in the veterans' wing of Sunnybrook Hospital yesterday. Cheshire, a Victoria Cross winner, has founded a World War Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief for which he hopes to raise $800 millions by Sept.3.

Airmen meet and remember. Group Capt. Leonard Cheshire, right, of the famed World War II Dambusters Squadron of the RAF visits with RCAF veteran Fred Brand in the veterans' wing of Sunnybrook Hospital yesterday. Cheshire, a Victoria Cross winner, has founded a World War Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief for which he hopes to raise $800 millions by Sept.3.

Date5/3/1989
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Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Leonard Cheshire, a wartime commander of the Royal Air Force 617 (Dambusters) Squadron, examine World War I(...)
Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Leonard Cheshire, a wartime commander of the Royal Air Force 617 (Dambusters) Squadron, examine World War I(...)
6/21/1972
World War II veteran and author Arthur Bishop holds a photograph, above, of his father, Billy Bishop, the World War I flying ace. Right, the senior Bishop pins RCAF pilot wings on his son in 1942
World War II veteran and author Arthur Bishop holds a photograph, above, of his father, Billy Bishop, the World War I flying ace. Right, the senior Bishop pins RCAF pilot wings on his son in 1942
10/15/1992
The Poppy, flower of remembrance for the Canadian dead in two world wars, is worn by Sunnybrook Hospital patients, themselves veterans of those wars. (...)
The Poppy, flower of remembrance for the Canadian dead in two world wars, is worn by Sunnybrook Hospital patients, themselves veterans of those wars. (...)
11/10/1974
Veterans angered: William Bull, left, president of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association Toronto- York wing, discusses the Billy Bishop movie with Percy Waters, 83, a World War I veteran.
Veterans angered: William Bull, left, president of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association Toronto- York wing, discusses the Billy Bishop movie with Percy Waters, 83, a World War I veteran.
1/19/1984
Veterans honored: Metro police Chief William McCormack greets Alexander Spivak, a World War II Russian pilot who took part in a parade yesterday by Jewish War Veterans of Canada
Veterans honored: Metro police Chief William McCormack greets Alexander Spivak, a World War II Russian pilot who took part in a parade yesterday by Jewish War Veterans of Canada
11/1/1992
Lest we forget. Veterans of the two great wars, Ed Horton, 68, left, a World War II flying officer, and Bill Greig, 92, a lance corporal in World War (...)
Lest we forget. Veterans of the two great wars, Ed Horton, 68, left, a World War II flying officer, and Bill Greig, 92, a lance corporal in World War (...)
11/1/1983
Last of the Lancs. Airman lowers flag in salute to famed World War II bombers - the Avro Lancasters - the last four of which were retired from RCAF se(...)
Last of the Lancs. Airman lowers flag in salute to famed World War II bombers - the Avro Lancasters - the last four of which were retired from RCAF se(...)
4/10/1964
Hospital wing opens: Former veterans affairs minister George Hees greets John Artis, 90, yesterday as Sunnybrook Health Science Centre opened a wing named for Hees
Hospital wing opens: Former veterans affairs minister George Hees greets John Artis, 90, yesterday as Sunnybrook Health Science Centre opened a wing named for Hees
10/17/1990
Korean war veterans John Crepeau from Sturgeon Falls remembers his friend J.H. Prud'homme at the Wall of Remembrance at Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton
Korean war veterans John Crepeau from Sturgeon Falls remembers his friend J.H. Prud'homme at the Wall of Remembrance at Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton
27 July 1997
Four war veterans, who remember sacrifices of their comrades very clearly still, though the years have passed, stand at Toronto's Cenotaph yesterday, (...)
Four war veterans, who remember sacrifices of their comrades very clearly still, though the years have passed, stand at Toronto's Cenotaph yesterday, (...)
11/10/1971
ded by U.S authorities. as the finest veterans hospital on the North American continent, in the world, Sunnybrook is shown in this general view. What (...)
ded by U.S authorities. as the finest veterans hospital on the North American continent, in the world, Sunnybrook is shown in this general view. What (...)
6/14/1949
Veterans of World War I Enjoy Last Time Together At Club, From left, George Skilton, 86, Fred Constable, 75, and Fred Ball, 75, share a joke
Veterans of World War I Enjoy Last Time Together At Club, From left, George Skilton, 86, Fred Constable, 75, and Fred Ball, 75, share a joke
12/28/1972