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Military service
Service number:
25517
Age:
26
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
407 (Maritime Reconnaissance) Squadron
Birth:
February 7, 1926
Edmonton, Alberta
Enlistment:
December 5, 1946
Alberta
Death:
November 24, 1952
Comox, British Columbia
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 1, Block 215
Additional information
Son of Cyril and Ellen Fletcher. Husband of Penelope Elizabeth Fletcher. Father of Daryl George and David Wesley Fletcher. Brother of Harold, William, Robert, Marjorie, Dorothy and Bernice Fletcher.
A Lancaster Cairn Ceremony will be held at Base Comox Air Park on 1 June 2008 to honour the 7 crewmembers who lost their lives when Lancaster KB940 crashed at Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Station Comox on 24 November 1952. Family members from across Canada as well as members of the 407 Squadron, VIP and the press are invited to the ceremony.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 32 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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