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In memory of:

Pilot Officer Clifford James Challenger

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Military service

Service number: J/18123
Age: 21
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 57 Sqdn. (R.A.F.)
Birth: August 13, 1921 Edgerton, Alberta
Enlistment: March 14, 1941 Edmonton, Alberta
Death: June 13, 1943 Bochum, Germany

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 175.
Additional information
Son of James Ernest Challenger and Edna Lavina Hardy, of Edgerton, Alberta.

He was a private with the 19th Alberta Dragoons – NPAM – in Edmonton, Alberta, service number 446, from May 21, 1939 to September 27, 1940.

He served in Canada and Great Britain. He had 821 days of service, including 458 overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, Defense Medal, General Service Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Bar, Operational Wings.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 145 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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