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Military service
Service number:
K/51940
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Calgary Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
December 5, 1924
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Enlistment:
June 30, 1943
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
March 4, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. E. 6.
Additional information
Son of Lt.-Col. George A. Hoover and Harriet Blanche Hoover, of Calgary, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Private James Earl Hoover
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Photo of JAMES EARL HOOVER
Jim, with mother and father -
Photo of JAMES EARL HOOVER
Jim enjoying what he loved best. -
Cemetery
The cemetery in Holland where Jim is buried is running a program called Faces to Graves. The 3 page blurb attached is our family's submission to the program. -
Plaque
Picture showing summit of Mt. Hoover, just northwest of Nelson, B.C. We climbed this mountain in September, 2016 and placed a plaque there in remembrance of my uncle, James (Jim) Earl Hoover. -
Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of James Hoover
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Grave Marker
Digital gallery of
Private James Earl Hoover
Digital gallery of
Private James Earl Hoover
Digital gallery of
Private James Earl Hoover
Digital gallery of
Private James Earl Hoover
Digital gallery of
Private James Earl Hoover
Digital gallery of
Private James Earl Hoover
Digital gallery of
Private James Earl Hoover
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 525 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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