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Military service
Service number:
J/35785
Age:
24
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
404 Sqdn.
Death:
February 9, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot. F. 16.
Additional information
Son of Eugene and Annie Lynch, of Mallorytown, Ontario, Canada. British
Commemorated on the Brockville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School Roll of Honour.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Hugh Charles Lynch
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Photo of Hugh Charles Lynch
Hugh Lynch in uniform. -
Group photo
Photo taken in Scotland end of October 1944 at 132 East Fortune, near Edinburgh, O.T.U Training Unit.<P> Top Row: 3rd from left ¿ P/O Claude Berges<BR> Pilot Officer (Navigator) Claude Gerald Berges J/95209, age 25, son of Eugene and Edith Berges, husband of Hilda Mary Berges, of Quebec City<BR> Second Row: 3rd from left - F/O O. W. Knight, Hugh Lynch and F/O Rex Myrick<BR> Flying Officer (Navigator) Oswald Wellington Knight J/36373, age 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Knight; husband of Doreen B. Knight, of Saskatoon and Vancouver, B.C.<BR> Flying Officer (Pilot) Hugh Charles Lynch J/35785, age 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Lynch, Mallorytown, Ontario.<BR> Flying Officer (Pilot) Philip Rex Myrick J/35788, age 22, son of Willard R. and Edna C. Myrick, of Tillsonburg, Ontario<BR> -
404 Sqdn Beau fighter
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Funeral
This took place in Norway. -
Memorial
This memorial is located in Scotland. -
Memorial
This memorial is located in Norway. -
Biography
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Biography (Page 4)
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Biography (Page 5)
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Photo of HUGH CHARLES LYNCH
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Grave marker
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Cemetery
photographer Arthur Toppe, Norway; Courtesy of Peter Smee, England -
Grave marker
photo courtesy of his sister, Jane Knotek -
Grave marker
CWGC Headstone Haugesund Cemetery -
Haugesund (Rossebo) Var Frelsers Cemetery.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh Charles Lynch
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh Charles Lynch
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh Charles Lynch
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh Charles Lynch
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh Charles Lynch
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh Charles Lynch
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh Charles Lynch
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh Charles Lynch
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh Charles Lynch
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 536 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HAUGESUND (ROSSEBO) VAR FRELSERS CEMETERY. Norway
The War Graves plot is maintained by the Municipality of Haugesund and the Cross of Sacrifice stands in a central position. The plot contains 44 graves, 9 of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The majority of the graves were concentrated here at the end of hostilities from nine out-lying places around this area.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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