Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
234618
Age:
25
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
445 All Weather (Fighter) Squadron
Birth:
July 15, 1935
Coaldale, Alberta
Enlistment:
March 3, 1955
Calgary
Death:
July 6, 1961
Moselle, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Section 7 Row F Grave 4
Additional information
Son of Isaack and Katherine Thiessen. Husband of Ruth (nee Adams). Father of Glen Thiessen. Brother of Anna, Jacob, Helen, John, Isaack, David, Abram, George and Alfred Thiessen.
Additional citations
Special Service Medal
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Flying Officer Heinrich (Henry) Thiessen
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Flying Officer Heinrich (Henry) Thiessen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 114 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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