wrote on September 6, 2010
Hello! I would like to find out, if I can, some information on F/L (John) Murray Faulder, DFC (#J22749) who served in 408 Sqn. as a Lancaster pilot during WW2. I don\'t know what he did in the post-war years, but was in the RCAF until about 1963. I knew him as he and his family were our neighbours on Lakeside Crescent here in Calgary. When the Canadian warplane Heritage Lancaster was recently here in Calgary, it made me remember him and want to know more about him in his RCAF service. He passed away in 1993 and his wife, Velma in 2008. My Mum, Norma, has talked to one if their three daughters, Leith (the others Leslie and Linda), but they really don\'t know much either. The family still has his log book, but they say it is written in code (??) and they can\'t seem to get much info from that. They don\'t have any wartime pictures of him either. I would like to find out information such as - if the aircraft he flew had names, what crewmen served alongside Murray and if any pictures exist of him (and crew) in uniform and better yet, around his aircraft. An interesting aside is that my Dad was German and though was only 15 when the war ended, went through many bombing raids in his hometown of Hannover, but he and Murray Faulder became very good friends as neighbours and I can recall as a kid being over at their house, playing with their dog, a Dachshund named \"Hermann\", and seeing the model Lancaster and I believe a painting of a Lanc as well, down in the basement rec room. I can also remember going along with my parents and the Faulders to some sort of Air Force Association type functions a couple of times. Any information I can get would be well appreciated and I would certainly pass it along to his daughters. Cheers! Byron Wolters