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Flying Officer George Walter Lineker

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Military service

Service number: 27168
Age: 27
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Tactical Group Headquarters
Birth: April 10, 1922 Edmonton, Alberta
Enlistment: September 10, 1940 Alberta
Death: August 21, 1949 Norway House, Churchill, Manitoba

Burial/memorial information

EDMONTON (BEECHMOUNT) CEMETERY
Grave reference: Soldiers Plot, Grove 20, Plot 198
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Son of Alfred Harold and Priscilla Adelaide (nee Kennett) Lineker of Edmonton, Alberta. Brother of Alfred, Donald, Robert, Terry and Priscilla Lineker and Mrs Joseph Sears.

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Page 8 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. II (2015 – ) Book of Remembrance.
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EDMONTON (BEECHMOUNT) CEMETERY Alberta, Canada

During the 1939-1945 War, Canadian Infantry troops were stationed at Edmonton. No.13 Vocational Training School was set up and the airfield formed a link in the North-West Staging Route. Most of the war graves lie in Blocks 206 and 208. The cemetery also contains a Cross of Sacrifice. There are now 5 First World War and over 70 Second World War casualties commemorated in this site.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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