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Flight Sergeant Arthur Ernest Charron

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Military service

Service number: R/54061
Age: 20
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 148th Sqn (RAF)
Birth: May 11, 1921 Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment: June 22, 1940 Ontario
Death: April 24, 1942 Valletta, Malta

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Prot. Sec. (Men's). Plot F. Coll. grave 99.
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Son of André Ernest Charron and Georgiana Reid, of Ottawa, Ontario. Husband of Doris Jane Carscadden. Father of Judith Anne Charron.

He was a Lance Corporal, Service Number 522, with the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards in Ottawa, Ontario, from February 1, 1938 to June 18, 1941.

He served in Canada, Great Britain, Egypt and Malta. He had 673 days of service, including 386 days overseas.

He died of wounds sustained on April 24, 1942 during a German air raid on Valletta, Malta.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 64 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MALTA (CAPUCCINI) NAVAL CEMETERY Malta

The Cemetery is about 2 kilometres south-east of Rinella, a bay and hamlet opposite Valletta across the mouth of the Grand Harbour and on the southern outskirts of the village of Kalkara. Just before entering Kalkara on the main bus route, the Cemetery is signposted along the road "Triq Santa Liberta" to the street of "Triq San Leonarda" and "Triq Santa Rokku" where the Cemetery is located. On 'Google Maps' this cemetery is indicated as Kalkara Military Cemetery.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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