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Military service
Service number:
R/57925
Age:
24
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
School Army-Co-operation, Ottawa
Birth:
January 10, 1917
Turtle Valley, Chase, British Columbia
Enlistment:
June 4, 1940
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
April 5, 1941
Matilda, Ontario
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot. Lot 517.
Additional information
Son of George Grant Chase and Margaret Brown from Chase. Brother to Alice Bradley of Vernon.
He was accidently killed when his monoplane crashed during an identification and aerial photography training flight.
He only served in Canada for 306 days.
Additional citations
War Medal 1939-1945 and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Howard Winfield Chase
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
View 2 of Sgt. Chase's grave marker in the Chase city cemetery. Photo taken Sept. 2015. -
Grave Marker
View 1 of Sgt. Chase's grave marker in the Chase city cemetery. Photo taken Sept. 2015. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star April 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Winfield Chase
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Winfield Chase
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Winfield Chase
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Winfield Chase
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Winfield Chase
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Winfield Chase
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 26 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CHASE PUBLIC CEMETERY British Columbia, Canada
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