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Pilot Officer John Alexander Santo

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Military service

Service number: J/88290
Age: 23
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 429 Sqdn.
Birth: September 21, 1920 Bender, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: May 5, 1942 Saskatchewan
Death: August 1, 1944

Burial/memorial information

ST. MARTIN-AU-BOSC COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Grave reference: Grave 5.
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Son of Alexander and Margaret Santo (1973 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother), of Bender, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Twin brother of Warrant Officer Class I Frank Robert Santo, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 436 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. MARTIN-AU-BOSC COMMUNAL CEMETERY Seine-Maritime, France

St. Martin-au-Bosc is a village and commune 42 kilometres east-south-east of Dieppe, and 11 kilometres south of Blangy, where the Le Treport-Aumale-Paris road (N.15 bis) crosses the Rouen to Abbeville road (N.28). The cemetery is on the south-east side of the village, down a rough track, 600 yards from the church. Near, and south-east of the crucifix in the centre of the cemetery are the graves of 1 officer of the Royal Air Force and 6 officers of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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