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Military service
Service number:
C/4802
Age:
33
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
May 6, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
24. Sec. 22. Grave 128.
Additional information
Son of John B. Duffey and Anna Duffey, of Toronto; husband of Dorothy E. Duffey, of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Bennett Lorel Duffey
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Newspaper article
2 SFTS UPLANDS ONTARIO - type of aircraft unknown - probably Harvard or Yale. Researching RAAF member Lord -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Circumstances of death registers
RCAF personnel file extract from the Canadian archives - Flying Officer Bennett Lorel Duffey C/4802 RCAF and Leading Aircraftman Douglas Mervyn Lord 400721 RAAF were killed in the loss of Harvard aircraft 2884 from 2 SFTS at Uplands in Ontario -
Memorial
Our Lady of the Airways Chapel 337 Breadner Boulevard, Ottawa has a stained glass window dedicated to the members of RCAF Station Uplands who gave their lives in the Second World War.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Bennett Lorel Duffey
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Bennett Lorel Duffey
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Bennett Lorel Duffey
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Bennett Lorel Duffey
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Bennett Lorel Duffey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 28 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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TORONTO (MOUNT HOPE) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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