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Pilot Officer Ronnie George Cassidy

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Military service

Service number: J/86946
Age: 23
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 38 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: April 9, 1920 Wayne, Alberta
Enlistment: June 19, 1941 Calgary, Alberta
Death: February 23, 1944 Aegean Sea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Column 281.
Additional information
Son of George Cassidy and Alice Katherine MacDonald, of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Brother of Seaman George Raymond Cassidy, registration V-43323, of the Royal Canadian Navy Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Frances Cassidy Oakley, registration W-1352, of the Canadian Army Show Overseas 'Royal Canadian Air Force. They survived the war.

He was a corporal in the Wayne Cadet Corps of the Canadian Army in Wayne, Alberta, from 1932 to 1936, a private in the 6th Army Field Workshop of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps – NPAM – in Drumheller, Alberta, from August 1940 to June 1941.

He served in Canada, Great Britain, Libya. He had 948 days of service, including 459 overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Africa Star, Defense Medal, General Service Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, Operational Wings.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 270 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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