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Military service
Service number:
J12468
Age:
27
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
159 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
February 7, 1918
McGillvary Township, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 4, 1941
Ontario
Death:
February 9, 1945
Moulmein, Myanmar
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 7A. E. 10-17.
Additional information
Son of William Wesley Schroeder and Edith Lyle Schroeder, of Centralia, Ontario. Formerly commemorated on Column 455 of the Singapore Memorial.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 562 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY Myanmar
TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY is outside Yangon (formerly Rangoon, Burma), near the airport and immediately adjoining the village of Taukkyan. It is on PY1 road (formerly Prome Road), about 35 kilometres north of the city from which it is easily accessible.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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