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Military service
Service number:
R/133638
Age:
20
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
103 Sqdn.
Birth:
November 14, 1922
Wheatcroft, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 16, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 1, 1943
Schlalach, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 181.
Additional information
Son of Edward Oliver Capin and Mary Capin, of Collingwood, Ontario.
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Inscription
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial Entrance
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Edward Butler Capin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 144 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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