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Pilot Officer Thomas Edward Case

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Military service

Service number: J/17539
Age: 20
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 156 Sqdn.
Birth: June 7, 1922 Earl Grey, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: November 7, 1940 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death: February 19, 1943 Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 175.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Howard Case, Q.C., and Sybil M. Case, of Kelvington, Saskatchewan.

He graduated from Kelvington High School. His father, Thomas fought in the First World War with the 15th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, service number 511072.

Thomas was a gunner with the 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Battery – NPAM – in Shilo, Manitoba, from June 28, 1939 to April 23, 1940.

He had service in Canada and in Great Britain. He had 835 days of service, including 525 days overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Europe Star, Defense Medal, General Service Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp and Operation Wings.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 144 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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