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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
Ottawa, 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.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, War Medal and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and clasp.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay's obit from Montreal Gazette, September 16, 1941. -
Memorial
The 2004 book 'Fathers, Brothers and Sons' by Carleton Place author Larry Gray book outlines the stories of the town's Second World War dead. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Hugh John Findlay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 30 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CHEVINGTON CEMETERY Northumberland, United Kingdom
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