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Military service
Service number:
R/80905
Age:
19
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
409 Sqdn.
Death:
August 8, 1942
25 miles from North Coates, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 105.
Additional information
Son of James Eunson Matches and Zelpha Lexena Matches, of Shallow Lake, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
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Photo of Alvin James Matches
Photo courtesy of Owen Sound Collegiate (OSCVI) Digital Soldier Library. -
Shallow Lake, Ontario
War Cenotaph in Shallow Lake, Ontario, Canada. -
Memorial Plaque
War Cenotaph in Shallow Lake, Ontario, Canada. -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star October 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute Second World War Memorial. Image courtesy of Owen Sound Collegiate (OSCVI) Digital Soldier Library. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times April 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times April 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Bulletin October 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Alvin James Matches
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 94 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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