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Wing Commander Howard Russel Norris

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Military service

Service number: 19692
Age: 36
Rank: Wing Commander
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: 432 All Weather Fighter Squadron
Birth: October 18, 1920 Regina, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: June 4, 1940 Saskatchewan
Death: September 5, 1957 Lake Ontario, Ontario

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Section 27, Sub Sec. G, Not 124
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Son of Harry and Mary (née Campbell) Norris of Regina, Saskatchewan. Husband of Eileen Clare (née Bailey) Norris. Father of Kathleen, Richard, Lorraine, David, John aka (Ronald), Wayne aka (Russell) and David. Brother of Robert, Max, Allan Norris and Elizabeth Young. Wing Commander Norris was a Sergeant Pilot Instructor in Dauphin, Manitoba during the Second World War. Wing Commander Norris attended Scott Collegiate in Regina, Saskatchewan.

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY contains 98 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 113 from the Second World War. Many of the graves are in the two veterans plots, where there is also a Cross of Sacrifice dedicated to all service casualties buried in the cemetery.

The OTTAWA CREMATION MEMORIAL is in a shelter adjoining the newer of the veterans plots in the cemetery and commemorates 26 Second World War servicemen whose remains were cremated elsewhere in Canada and the U.S.A.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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