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Wing Commander David Thomas French

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Military service

Service number: 19953
Age: 35
Rank: Wing Commander
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 405 (Maritime Reconnaissance) Squadron
Birth: March 25, 1915 Calgary, Alberta
Enlistment: September 29, 1939 Alberta
Death: July 31, 1950 Alert

Burial/memorial information

Canadian Forces Station Alert
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Son of George T. and Beatrice French of Victoria, British Columbia. Husband of Mary E. French. Father of David J. and Sherry E. French. Brother of Jessica Field and Nancy Davies. The remains of the eight Canadians were to be repatriated south on a Canso flying boat from 103 Rescue Unit, but difficulties in getting the bodies out forced a decision to bury the Canadians in Alert.

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Service in Canada (1867 – present)

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Page 15 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. II (2015 – ) Book of Remembrance.
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Canadian Forces Station Alert Canada

Alert, Nunavut

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