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Son of Captain Charles Ernest Henderson and Mary Justine Henderson, of Toronto, Ontario.
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Marker stone to Flt Lt C. P. Henderson in Scopwick Church Burial Ground, Lincolnshire, England. The personal inscription reads: Son of Captain & Mrs C. E. Henderson, Toronto, Canada. May his soul rest in peace.
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Born in Sudbury on Jan. 2, 1921 his father was Capt. Charles Henderson, M.C., who served with the 102nd Battalion in World War I. As soon as he completed his matriculation at Northern Vocational School in June of 1939, he applied for the RCAF. He was called up two days before Britain declared war. He was the youngest pilot in Canada's first fighter squadron. It was a flying accident that took his life at age 20 in Britain.
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Paul Henderson was one of the first five provisional pilots who was trained by a woman flying instructor, Helen Harrison. Miss Helen Harrison, who helped train the Dominion's aviators, is shown with one of
her pupils, Paul Henderson, in a dual-control plane at the Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club in
Ontario
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Graduating class
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
From the Toronto Star March 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Paul Henderson
From the Toronto Star March 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Marker stone to Flt Lt C. P. Henderson in Scopwick Church Burial Ground, Lincolnshire, England. The personal inscription reads: Son of Captain & Mrs C. E. Henderson, Toronto, Canada. May his soul rest in peace.
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Born in Sudbury on Jan. 2, 1921 his father was Capt. Charles Henderson, M.C., who served with the 102nd Battalion in World War I. As soon as he completed his matriculation at Northern Vocational School in June of 1939, he applied for the RCAF. He was called up two days before Britain declared war. He was the youngest pilot in Canada's first fighter squadron. It was a flying accident that took his life at age 20 in Britain.
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Paul Henderson was one of the first five provisional pilots who was trained by a woman flying instructor, Helen Harrison. Miss Helen Harrison, who helped train the Dominion's aviators, is shown with one of her pupils, Paul Henderson, in a dual-control plane at the Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club in Ontario
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Graduating class
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star March 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star March 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 32 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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SCOPWICK CHURCH BURIAL GROUND Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Digby aerodrome was built towards the end of the First World War and after the war it functioned as a permanent unit of the Royal Air Force. In 1937 it became a member of No 12 Fighter Group in which it remained until the end of the Second World War.
Digby was one of the original sectors of Fighter Command and in the early days of the Second World War was very active in the defence of northern England. No 42 (Fighter) Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force (known as the Red Indian Squadron from the emblem which it carried) was formed there in April 1942. On September 16, 1942, the sector was taken over by the RCAF and until the end of the war was known as Royal Canadian Air Force Station, Digby.
The 37 Canadian airmen buried at Scopwick lost their lives while stationed at Digby. They include an American airman who served with the RCAF, P/O J G Magee, and author of the poem 'High Flight'.
Scopwick Church Burial Ground contains 50 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War and five German war graves. The graves form a plot in the top half of the burial ground. The Cross of Sacrifice in the corner of the plot was unveiled by the Air Member, Canadian Joint Staff on June 1, 1950.
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