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Flying Officer Donald Hugh John Chapman

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Military service

Service number: J/9361
Age: 24
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 3rd SFTS (RCAF)
Birth: July 28, 1918 Edmonton, Alberta
Death: February 13, 1943 Calgary, Alberta

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EDMONTON CEMETERY
Grave reference: Block 143. Sub. Div. K. Grave 2.
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Son of Cecil Hugh Chapman and Muriel Huntingdon Simpson, of Edmonton, Alberta.

Was a cadet in the army from 1930 to 1934 and a reservist with the 2nd Battalion, 49th Edmonton Regiment – ??NPAM – service number 735 replaced by 536644, in Edmonton, Alberta, from August 14, 1940 to April 20, 1941.

Served only in Canada for 641 days. He was accidentally killed in a mid-air collision.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 145 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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EDMONTON CEMETERY Alberta, Canada

The cemetery was formerly known as "Edmonton Protestant Cemetery" and contains graves of both world wars. There is also a Cross of Sacrifice, erected after the 1914-1918 War. There are now 80, 1914-1918 and over 50, 1939-1945 War casualties commemorated in this site.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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