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Sergeant Howard James Vincent

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Military service

Service number: R/98849
Age: 26
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 32 Operational Training Unit
Birth: March 31, 1916 Canna, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: May 1, 1941 Saskatchewan
Death: August 10, 1942 Dalhousie Mountain, Pictou, Nova Scotia

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: S.W. Corner, Soldiers (Protestant)
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Son of Hedley W. Vincent and May (nee Hawthorne. Vincent, of Canora, Saskatchewan. Husband of Phyllis Effie (nee Drake) Vincent. Father of Darryl James and Bonnie Lynn of Canora, Saskatchewan.

A dedication service took place at 2:00 p.m. on 10 August 2008, the 66th anniversary of the crash of Hudson bomber, BW 401 which took the lives of four Canadians, Sergeant Howard J. 'Jim' Vincent, Pilot Officer John Kenneth 'Jack' Hobson, Pilot Officer Paul Amos Rogers and Sergeant Arnold William Cooke and Pilot Officer John Bursill from Campbelltown, New South Wales.

The church service which was held at Durham Presbyterian Church followed by family of the crew and other dignataries being transported to the memorial site where a military-style ceremony took place. There was an unveiling and consecration of the Memorial Stone and Plaque.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 121 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANORA CEMETERY Saskatchewan, Canada

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