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Flying Officer Roy Edward Carter

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Military service

Service number: J/28855
Age: 23
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 431 Sqdn.
Birth: March 2, 1921 Burketon, Durham, Ontario
Enlistment: May 30, 1942 Toronto, Ontario
Death: July 9, 1944 Tilburg, Netherlands

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 245.
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Son of John and Agnes Carter, of Burketon, Ontario.

Flying Officer Carter was honoured by the re-naming of Crestview Park to Roy E. Carter Memorial Park on 9 November 2009. Flying Officer Carter is also commemorated on a large memorial stone in the city of Tilburg, The Netherlands, where he was discovered and killed by German soldiers.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 269 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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