UPDATE: The high wind forecast for Saturday June 7th is not improving but the forecast is much better for Sunday, therefore we are moving the Ed Rae Memorial Fun Fly to Sunday June 8th, 2025
Join us SUNDAY June 8, 2025 for the Ed Rae Memorial Fun Fly.
Come out and fly, watch or eat burgers, it’s all good. There will be a SWAP MEET. If you have RC stuff to sell or give away, bring it out. You can set it up on the south side of the main shelter and in the spectator area between the sidewalk and the monument. Please be sure to mark a price and your name on the items. Please bring a table if you need one as most of the picnic tables will be needed for lunch.
Rain date: 2025-06-08
Who was Ed Rae?
Ed Rae joined the Air Force in 1943 when he was 18 years old. He was a rear gunner on a Halifax aircraft. He was shot down near the end of the war and became a prisoner of war in Barth Germany. When he was released after the war, he came home and became a draftsman at Rockcliffe Air Base. He later worked as a Production Artist for the Department of Foreign Affairs where he was discovered by Alan Beddoe (a local heraldry expert) to be a part of a group of people to transcribe names of fallen soldiers that had died during WW11, into the Book of Remembrance located in the Peace Tower at Parliament Hill. He later became quite active with a group called the International Group of Prisoners of War. He put out a semi-annual newsletter and attended many reunions. Unfortunately, both he and his wife (Irene Rae) died in a car accident on October 27, 2001.
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