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Squadron Leader James Easson Hogg

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Citation(s);

Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)

Military service

Service number: J/21119
Age: 28
Rank: Squadron Leader
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 438 Squadron
Birth: August 19, 1916 South Shields, County Durham, England
Enlistment: April 5, 1939 Ottawa, Ontario
Death: March 23, 1945 Abbotsbury, Dorset, England

Burial/memorial information

RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 278.
Additional information
Son of William Sanderson and Jane (nee Westwater) Hogg. Brother of William Gordon of Ottawa, Ontario. Nephew of Robert J. Hogg of Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland.

Squadron Leader James Easson Hogg has been honoured by having Mount Hogg named after him. The location of Mount Hogg is in Yukon (105F08- 61° 20’ 32”- 132° 14’ 17”).

Additional citations

Distinguished Flying Cross, London Gazette dated 23 January 1945. Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Operational Wings posthumously on 23 November 1944.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 525 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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