Leading Aircraftman
DOUGLAS ERNEST (D E) PAUL

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• Buried 6 May 1941 - IPSWICH CEMETERY

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Interesting Facts

• Rejected by the RCAF because of a limp from a birth defect and graduating first in his class at Toronto Radio College Paul was snapped up by the Merchant Navy where he served as wireless operator on SS Canadian Cruiser sailing the world. While ashore in Durban, South Africa he was luckily recruited by the RAF, being appointed L.A.C retroactive to the day he should have entered the RCAF.. On its next cruise his former ship was sunk by the German surface raider Admiral Scheer, the wireless operator trained by Paul managing to get off a signal that brought the Royal Navy, which drove the Scheer into hiding where it stayed for the duration of the war and never sank another ship. Posted to Radar Station Bawdsey near Felixstowe in Eastern England during his leisure time Paul wrote poetry, one piece, An Air Man's Vision, being published six months after he bled to death after being stuck by bomb fragments during a German attack on Bawdsey.

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  An Airman’s Vision by L.A.C. D.E. Paul

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  The following poem was written by Leading Aircraftsman Douglas E. Paul just days before his death[...]

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Fallen Soldiers buried in IPSWICH CEMETERY

• Flying Officer
  THOMPSON, WALTER MCNAUGHT
  24 October 1942
  Royal Canadian Air Force
  
• Flight Sergeant
  BOWEN, LAWRENCE MILBERT
  3 September 1941
  Royal Canadian Air Force
  
• Flight Sergeant
  HIGGINS, FREDERICK ALEXANDER
  8 November 1941
  Royal Canadian Air Force
  
• Chief Officer
  EDMONDS, EDWARD JOHN
  26 December 1940
  Canadian Merchant Navy
  
• Private
  WALL, JAMES
  15 May 1915
  King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
  
• Sergeant
  ROGERS, BARNEY ANDREW
  11 September 1942
  Royal Canadian Air Force
  
• Pilot Officer
  NIXON, JACKSON CORWIN
  3 September 1941
  Royal Canadian Air Force
  
• Sapper
  WILLIAMS, GILBERT LEE
  19 February 1919
  Canadian Engineers
  
• Flight Sergeant
  HALWARD, JAMES FREDERICK JIM
  5 May 1942
  Royal Canadian Air Force
  
• Flight Lieutenant
  TAMBLYN, HUGH NORMAN
  3 April 1941
  Royal Air Force
  
• Leading Aircraftman
  PAUL, DOUGLAS ERNEST
  6 May 1941
  Royal Air Force
  
• Flight Sergeant
  MCKENZIE, JOHN DRAPER
  31 May 1942
  Royal Canadian Air Force