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Flying Officer William John Schmidt

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Military service

Service number: 43689
Age: 25
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: 445 All Weather (Fighter) Squadron
Birth: November 2, 1930 Medicine Hat, Alberta
Enlistment: June 26, 1952 Alberta
Death: May 15, 1956 North of Orleans, Ontario

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 4217 Military Plot
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Son of the late Gottfred and Josephine (nee Webster) Schmidt of Creston, British Columbia. Husband of Mary Clare (née Dowling) Schmidt and father of Mary Patricia and Brian John Schmidt of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Brother of Frederick Schmidt.

WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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