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Flying Officer William James Irwin

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Military service

Service number: J/9431
Age: 26
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 268 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death: July 30, 1943

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Son of Roland J. Irwin and Pearl Irwin; husband of Doris Violet Irwin, of Woodstock, Ontario.

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Page 173 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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GRANVILLE (ST. PAUL) COMMUNAL CEMETERY Manche, France

Granville is a town and commune on the west coast of the Cherbourg peninsula. The communal cemetery is on the eastern side of the town, north of the road (N.24b) to Villedieu-les-Poeles. Access is by Rue du Moulin. There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1939-1945 war here, 27 metres north-west of the stone calvary in the centre of the burial ground.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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