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Military service
Service number:
C/1173
Age:
20
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
# 401 Ram Squadron
Birth:
January 2, 1921
Sudbury, Ontario
Death:
March 25, 1941
Digby, United Kingdom
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Row 2. Grave 37.
Additional information
Son of Captain Charles Ernest Henderson and Mary Justine Henderson, of Toronto, Ontario.
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Scopwick Church Burial Ground
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Grave Marker
Marker stone to Flt Lt C. P. Henderson in Scopwick Church Burial Ground, Lincolnshire, England. The personal inscription reads: Son of Captain & Mrs C. E. Henderson, Toronto, Canada. May his soul rest in peace. -
Medals
Born in Sudbury on Jan. 2, 1921 his father was Capt. Charles Henderson, M.C., who served with the 102nd Battalion in World War I. As soon as he completed his matriculation at Northern Vocational School in June of 1939, he applied for the RCAF. He was called up two days before Britain declared war. He was the youngest pilot in Canada's first fighter squadron. It was a flying accident that took his life at age 20 in Britain. -
Photo of Charles Paul Henderson
Paul Henderson was one of the first five provisional pilots who was trained by a woman flying instructor, Helen Harrison. Miss Helen Harrison, who helped train the Dominion's aviators, is shown with one of her pupils, Paul Henderson, in a dual-control plane at the Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club in Ontario -
Group Photo
Graduating class -
Photo of Charles Paul Henderson
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 32 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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