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Corporal Douglas Hugh Fields

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Military service

Service number: SF 8513
Age: 34
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Birth: October 14, 1933 Canning, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: March 31, 1953 Nova Scotia
Death: May 8, 1968 Petawawa, Ontario

Burial/memorial information

MAPLEWOOD CEMETERY
Grave reference: Grave 2, Row 17
Additional information
Son of Douglas Patterson and Jessie Glenora Fields of Canning, Nova Scotia. Brother of Arthur, Maynard, Lewis, Mary, Ellen, Jane and Gracie. Husband of Eileen Ethel (nee Murphy) Fields and father of Wendall, Frederick, Tina, Steven and Tammy of Petawawa, Ontario. A Commemorative Ceremony was held at Wegner Point on 11 May 2008 to honour the seven fallen paratroopers who drowned in 1968 during a para drop exercise at CFB Petawawa. Close to 100 guests, most in uniform, attended the Ceremony gathered around the Memorial Cairn. Several family members of the deceased were present for the Ceremony.

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Service in Canada (1867 – present)

MAPLEWOOD CEMETERY Nova Scotia, Canada

Windsor, Nova Scotia

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