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Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber) Burnet Montieth Chamney

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Military service

Service number: R/87480
Age: 23
Rank: Flight Sergeant Navigator (Bomber)
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 420 Sqn. (RCAF)
Birth: October 16, 1919 Watrous, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: March 5, 1941 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death: February 26, 1943 Mönchen-Gladbach, Germany

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 2. C. 23.
Additional information
Son of Russel Earl Chamney and Grace Doreetha Irene Potter, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

He served as a Cadet in the army in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, from 1932 to 1937, served with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals from 1937 to 1940, rifleman in the 2nd Battalion of the Saskatchewan Light Infantry (MG) in 1940, cadet rifleman in the COTC – NPAM – in 1940. Provincial shooting champion, gold medal in 1936, 2nd class shooting medal of the Dominion Canadian Rifle Association in 1940.

He served in Canada and Great Britain. He had 681 days of service, including 303 overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, Operational wings.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 145 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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