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Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay

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Military service

Service number: C/1179
Age: 28
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 406 Sqdn.
Birth: June 6, 1913 Carleton Place, Ontario
Enlistment: October 9, 1939 Ontario
Death: September 14, 1941 Acklington, Northumberland, England

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. H. Grave 240.
Additional information
Fondly known as 'Jock'. Son of David and Effie May (nee Hamilton) Findlay of Carleton Place, Ontario; husband of Jessie Maud Salmon (nee Carroll) Findlay and father of Mary Hamilton, of Westmount, Quebec. B.A. (McGill), LL.B (Osgoode Hall Law School Toronto), Barrister, Member of the Ontario Bar. Brother of Kenneth, David, Hamilton, George, Helen, Jean and Margaret. The Town of Carleton Place remembered Flying Officer Findlay by naming a street in his honour.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 30 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CHEVINGTON CEMETERY Northumberland, United Kingdom

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