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Sergeant Henry Gerald Peel

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Military service

Service number: R/65821
Age: 23
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #15 Operational Training Unit
Death: July 13, 1941 Off the coast of Esposendes, Portugal

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot 1. Coll. grave 774.
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Son of C. Newton Peel and Hazel Peel, of Cannington, Ontario.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 41 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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OPORTO (ST. JAMES) BRITISH CHURCHYARD Portugal

Oporto, a seaport and the second largest city in Portugal, is on the northern bank of the river Douro. It has a cathedral and a university. The churchyard of the British church of St. James, Largo Maternitate Julio Diniz, contains the graves of 11 airmen from three aircraft which crashed near Oporto at different times during the Second World War.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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