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Military service
Service number:
J/16816
Age:
21
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
408 Sqdn.
Birth:
May 16, 1922
Dunchurch, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 3, 1941
North Bay, Ontario
Death:
January 27, 1944
Walbich Tal near Urftalshere, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
14. E. 11.
Additional information
Son of James Edward and Alice Victoria (nee Bayne) Canning, of Dunchurch, Ontario.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, the 10 October 1946.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Thomas Kenneth Canning
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Memorial
Flying Officer Thomas Kenneth Canning is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Thomas Kenneth Canning is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Identification
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of THOMAS KENNETH CANNING
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Kenneth Canning
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Kenneth Canning
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Kenneth Canning
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Kenneth Canning
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Kenneth Canning
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 267 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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