Military service
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Digital gallery of Flying Officer Clifford Leonard Horncastle
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Cliff Horncastle
Cliff Horncastle relating the story to the Chaps.<P> Cliff was to be my father's best man on November 7, 1942, however, he crashed on takeoff on November 3 and died in the wreckage. I was born the following year and am named for him - my middle name is Clifford. -
Photo of Clifford Horncastle
Picture of Clifford Horncastle with friend, Flt/Lt Fred Clarke. -
Photo of Clifford Horncastle
Cliff in Cockpit. -
Grave Marker
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Photo of Clifford Horncastle
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Photo of CLIFFORD LEONARD HORNCASTLE
8 May 1942 414 Sqn, R.C.A.F. Army Co-operation squadron overseas Twenty-three year old F/0 C. L. Horncastle, of Edmonton, pilot in an R.C.A.F. Army Co-operation squadron in Britain. He joined the Air Force straight from High School. -
Photo of CLIFFORD LEONARD HORNCASTLE
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Attestation paper
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Document
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Birth Certificate
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Letter
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Temporary grave marker
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Letter
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Letter
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Letter
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Photo of CLIFFORD LEONARD HORNCASTLE
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Edmonton Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom
Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.
In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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