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Military service
Service number:
J/13066
Age:
23
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
16th SFTS (RCAF)
Birth:
September 29, 1919
Alva, Scotland
Enlistment:
September 20, 1941
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
January 6, 1943
Puslinch, Morrison, Ontario
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. 24. Lot 621. East grave.
Additional information
Son of John Caskie and Agnes Kellie, of Hamilton, Ontario. Husband of Nancy Margaret Anderson, of Hamilton, Ontario. Father of one child.
He served as a private, service number B-600038, at NRMA Clearing Depot No 2 in Ontario and Nova Scotia. He served with the air force in Canada for 461 days. As a flight instructor, he crashed at Puslinch southwest of Morrison, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer John Caskie
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Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of John Caskie
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Caskie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Caskie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Caskie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Caskie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Caskie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Caskie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Caskie
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Caskie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 144 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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