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Flight Lieutenant James Cecil Smith

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Military service

Service number: 34480
Age: 28
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: 111 Composite Unit, RCAF
Birth: February 13, 1930 Swan River, Manitoba
Enlistment: January 27, 1951 Manitoba
Death: November 30, 1958 Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Military Section No 4640
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Son of Charles Ebenezer and Emma (nee Danard) Smith of Swan River, Manitoba. Spouse of Margaret Anne (nee English) Smith and father of Kathleen Isabel and Margaret Eleanor Smith of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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