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Military service
Service number:
R/134417
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
May 22, 1919
Cartwright, Manitoba
Enlistment:
October 10, 1941
Manitoba
Death:
January 28, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. H. Grave 406.
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Son of William and Josephine Askew, of Cartwright, Manitoba.
Brother of Flight Sergeant George William Askew, who died on July 26, 1943, while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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Commemorated on:
Page 132 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RIPON CEMETERY Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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