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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Raymond Collishaw, Allison Crowe, Diana Krall, Jodelle Ferland, Jean B. Lumb, Jonathan Berry, Lauren van Oosten, Glen Clark, Cameron Bright, Georgina Wheatcroft, E. J. Hughes, Kirsten Sweetland, Al Hill, Justin Chatwin, Jan Brown, Gerald Kazanowski, Allie Hann-McCurdy, Marla Mallett, Ingrid Jensen, Brett Palin, Gene Carr, Karen Kelsall, Shane Sutcliffe, Christopher Hart, Anne Cameron, Audrey Alexandra Brown, Ike MacKay, John DeSantis, Iain Baird, Mary Frizzell, Wayne Bianchin, Bryan Dumesnil, Trent Kaese, Leonard Krog, Thaine Carter, Sandy Sidhu, Anna Lyman, Jimmy Claxton, Sue Reid, Nira Arora, Ron Cantelon, Christin Petelski, Sheryl Plouffe, Tim Lander. Excerpt: Air Vice Marshal Raymond Collishaw CB, DSO & Bar, OBE, DSC, DFC, RAF (22 November 1893 - 28 September 1976) was a distinguished Canadian fighter pilot, squadron leader, and commanding officer who served in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and later the Royal Air Force. He was the highest scoring RNAS flying ace and the second highest scoring Canadian pilot of the First World War. He was noted as a great leader in the air, leading many of his own formations into battle. As a member of the RAF during the Second World War, he commanded No. 204 Group (which later became the Desert Air Force) in North Africa. Raymond Collishaw was born at Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada on 22 November 1893. His father was John Edward Collishaw from Wrexham, Wales and his mother Sarah "Sadie" Jones from Newport, Wales but raised in Pantygog, Garw Valley. At the age of 15, he joined the Canadian Fisheries Protection Services as a cabin boy. He was a lower class sailor onboard the Alcedo when it sailed into the Arctic Circle in search of the Stefansson expedition. Unfortunately, it turned out that the expedition was too late to rescue the Karluk. When war broke out in 1914, his...
