AFC
Dora
Marion
Bamsey
Born in Jarrow, Wainwright No. 61, Alberta, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Percival Reuben Bamsey
and Jesse Alice (Davidson) Bamsey
Sister of
Walter Alfred Bamsey, Annie Alice Bamsey, Esther M (Bamsey) May, Ina Jean Bamsey, Gertrude Minnie Bamsey and Arthur David Bamsey
Died
at age 18
in Vulcan, Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 13 Feb 2023
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Biography
AFC Dora Bamsey served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II
Service started: 23 Feb 1943
Unit(s):
Service ended:
Service started: 23 Feb 1943
Unit(s):
Service ended:
Leading Aircraftwoman Dora Bamsey Died as the result of a non-combat related illness during World War II.
Dora was born on December 12, 1924 in the Hamlet of Jarrow, Alberta. She was a daughter of Percival/Perry Reuben Bamsey and Jessie Alice (Davidson) Bamsey.[1]
She had two brothers and four sisters. By 1943, they lived in Edmonton.[1]
Her hobbies included skiing and bicycle riding.[1]
She left school at 18 after two years of high school.[1]
Dora enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division on February 23, 1943. The RCAF was the first division of the Canadian military to recruit women, many of had previously been denied an opportunity to serve in the war effort. Alice was one of 17,038 women who served in the RCAF during the existence of the original women's division.[1]
Her unit trained at Rockcliffe and Toronto in Ontario before she was posted to Vulcan, Alberta in May of the same year.[1]
She died on June 6, 1943 in Vulcan while on active duty of Acute Bacterial Endocarditis. She was interred at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Edmonton.[1][2][3][4]
Census Records
- "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP24-CB2N : 24 September 2020), Marci Bawsey in household of Percy Bawsey, Battle River, Alberta, Canada; citing Census, Battle River, Alberta, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 War Record, Library and Archives Canada
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #82250581, Aircraftwoman First Class Dora Marion Bamsey (1924-1943)
- ↑ "Airwoman Dies Of Heart Seizure", Edmonton Journal; Edmonton, Alberta; 8 June 1943, page 16. (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44196673/bamsey-edmonton-journal-june-8-1943/ Accessed 12 February 2023.)
- ↑ Memorial, Dora Bamsey, Canadian Virtual War Memorial. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
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