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Sergeant Howard Winfield Chase

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Military service

Service number: R/57925
Age: 24
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: School Army-Co-operation, Ottawa
Birth: January 10, 1917 Turtle Valley, Chase, British Columbia
Enlistment: June 4, 1940 British Columbia
Death: April 5, 1941 Matilda, Ontario

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot. Lot 517.
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Son of George Grant Chase and Margaret Brown from Chase. Brother to Alice Bradley of Vernon.

He was accidently killed when his monoplane crashed during an identification and aerial photography training flight.

He only served in Canada for 306 days.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 26 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CHASE PUBLIC CEMETERY British Columbia, Canada

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