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Pilot Officer Bruce Charles Chinnery

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Military service

Service number: J/91127
Age: 23
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 158 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: June 17, 1921 Windsor, Ontario
Enlistment: August 18, 1942 Ontario
Death: October 30, 1944 Cologne, Germany

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. L. South Div. Grave 277.
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Son of Charles William Chinnery and Madeline Victoria Volk. Husband of Leata Findlay Cruickshank Stephen, of Nairn, Scotland.

Brother of Aircraftman Wallace Chinnery, member of the Royal Canadian Air Force. He survived the Second World War.

He was killed during an air raid over Cologne, Germany, when an incendiary bomb dropped by friendly forces passed through the fuselage of his bomber, which did not explode, fracturing his skull.

He served in Canada and Britain. He had 790 days of service, 365 of which were overseas.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 272 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ELGIN NEW CEMETERY Moray, United Kingdom

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