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Military service
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Naval Air Service
Death:
March 20, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
From the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia.
Additional citations
Flight Lieutenant Arnold was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, the first decoration made to a Canadian airman in the RNAS. Reference: Chronology of Canadian Military Aviation, H.A. Halliday, 1975
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Harwood James Arnold
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Photo of Harwood J Arnold
Photo from publication: Two Years of War: as viewed from Ottawa 1916, pg 114 Online at www.archive.org (text archives, Canadian Libraries) -
Biography
Bio from publication: Two Years of War: as viewed from Ottawa 1916, pg 114 Online at www.archive.org (text archives, Canadian Libraries) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of June 5, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y154uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 583 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LEYSDOWN (ST. CLEMENT) CHURCHYARD Kent, United Kingdom
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