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Warrant Officer Class II John Herbert Ekelund

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Military service

Service number: R/77565
Age: 23
Rank: Warrant Officer Class II
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 149 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death: October 16, 1942

Burial/memorial information

L'ILE-D'YEU (PORT JOINVILLE) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Grave reference: Plot F. Row 1. Coll. grave 98.
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Son of Aron Eugene and Ruth Joy Ekelund, of Twin Butte, Alberta, Canada.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 71 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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L'ILE-D'YEU (PORT JOINVILLE) COMMUNAL CEMETERY Vendee, France

The Ile-d'Yeu is a small island, about 8 kilometres long some 23 kilometres south of the Ile de Noirmoutier. Port-Joinville is the village with a harbour where the ferry lands. The cemetery is south of the village on the right-hand side of the road to Port-de-la-Meule, and along the right-hand wall from the main gate are the graves of eight British soldiers (one of whom is not identified) and of three airmen of the Royal Air Force, four of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and one of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Seven of the airmen are buried in a collective grave, marked by one upright headstone and seven recumbent slabs.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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