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Leading Aircraftman Charles Fortune Hutton

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Military service

Service number: R/129339
Age: 29
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Death: December 19, 1942

Burial/memorial information

SCOPWICK CHURCH BURIAL GROUND
Grave reference: Row 4. Grave 33.
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Son of Heber C. Hutton and Clara Hutton, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 84 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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SCOPWICK CHURCH BURIAL GROUND Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Digby aerodrome was built towards the end of the First World War and after the war it functioned as a permanent unit of the Royal Air Force. In 1937 it became a member of No 12 Fighter Group in which it remained until the end of the Second World War.

Digby was one of the original sectors of Fighter Command and in the early days of the Second World War was very active in the defence of northern England. No 42 (Fighter) Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force (known as the Red Indian Squadron from the emblem which it carried) was formed there in April 1942. On September 16, 1942, the sector was taken over by the RCAF and until the end of the war was known as Royal Canadian Air Force Station, Digby.

The 37 Canadian airmen buried at Scopwick lost their lives while stationed at Digby. They include an American airman who served with the RCAF, P/O J G Magee, and author of the poem 'High Flight'.

Scopwick Church Burial Ground contains 50 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War and five German war graves. The graves form a plot in the top half of the burial ground. The Cross of Sacrifice in the corner of the plot was unveiled by the Air Member, Canadian Joint Staff on June 1, 1950.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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