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Military service
Service number:
J/35977
Age:
26
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
411 Sqdn.
Birth:
January 17, 1918
Thomaston, Georgia
Death:
October 29, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
16. E. 16.
Additional information
Son of Clifton Odell Kinsler and Corinne Kinsler, of Thomaston, Georgia, United States.
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Grave Marker
Grave marker of F/O Thomas F. Kinsler RCAF of Thomaston, Georgia, U.S.A. at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Cleves, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. F/O Kinsler was killed in action at the age of 26 while on active service with No. 411 "Grizzly Bear" Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force when his homebound Supermarine Spitfire (PV240) was hit by enemy flak and crashed at Bentheim, Germany on October 29, 1944. -
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flying Officer Thomas Francis Kinsler
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Francis Kinsler
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Francis Kinsler
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Francis Kinsler
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Francis Kinsler
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Francis Kinsler
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Francis Kinsler
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Francis Kinsler
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Thomas Francis Kinsler
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Commemorated on:
Page 353 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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