Nova Scotia death-

Donald Lloyd Breadner died on 30 Nov 1944 in Westchester, Cumberland County; death record can be found in Registration Year: 1944 - Book: 213 - Page: 785.

Information on F.O. Breadner's date and place of birth kindly provided by Norm Sheppard.

**On 21 Sept 2013, in Westchester Station, Cumberland County, a gathering of more than 50 people remembered, with honour, the two young Canadian airmen, Flying Officer Donald Lloyd BREADNER and Flying Officer Kenneth Brian BENNETT of Operational Training Unit #7 in Debert, Nova Scotia, who had served and fallen during a gunnery training exercise which was preparing them for operational service in Europe. Attending this memorial service were two Air Cadet Squadrons, Pugwash Royal Canadian Legion Branch 60 members, four relatives of Donald Breadner, the Honourable John Buchanan of Nova Scotia, and many other interested attendees. Twenty of the attendees made the trek, through the trees and bush, to place a memorial plaque, and to perform a final salute, at the actual crash site.

*[This ceremonial event was organized by Norm Sheppard (Contributor #47647125)]*

Military Service-

Rank: Flying Officer

Trade: Pilot

Service Number: J/43299

Age: 20

Force: Air Force

Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force

Division: #7 Operational Training Unit (OTU); RCAF Debert, Nova Scotia

Son of Air Marshall Lloyd Samuel Breadner, C.B., D.S.C., D.F.C. and of Mary Evelyn Breadner (née Story) of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Flying Officer Donald Lloyd Breadner is commemorated on Page 257 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.

He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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On 21 Sept 2013, in Westchester Station, Cumberland County, a gathering of more than 50 people remembered, with honour, the two young Canadian airmen, Flying Officer Donald Lloyd BREADNER and Flying Officer Kenneth Brian BENNETT of Operational Training Unit #7 in Debert, Nova Scotia, who had served and fallen during a gunnery training exercise which was preparing them for operational service in Europe. Attending this memorial service were two Air Cadet Squadrons, Pugwash Royal Canadian Legion Branch 60 members, four relatives of Donald Breadner, the Honourable John Buchanan of Nova Scotia, and many other interested attendees. Twenty of the attendees made the trek, through the trees and bush, to place a memorial plaque, and to perform a final salute, at the actual crash site. [This ceremonial event was organized by Norm Sheppard (Contributor #47647125)]