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Flying Officer Garnet Oliver Carefoot

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Military service

Service number: J/10796
Age: 27
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 431 Squadron
Birth: July 18, 1916 Beverley, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: June 23, 1941 Saskatchewan
Death: November 19, 1943 English Channel

Burial/memorial information

ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Grave reference: Plot 6. Row D. Grave 3.
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Son of William Alexander and Annie Ethel Carefoot of Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Brother of Oscar, Herman, Murray, Elmer, Lloyd, Ola and Marie. He was single and worked on the family farm. He attended Simcoe Public School from 1921 to 1931 and Swift Current Collegiate from 1931 to 1932.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 144 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France

The town of Abbeville is on the main road from Paris to Boulogne, about 80 kilometres south of Boulogne. On reaching Abbeville from Boulogne on the N1 at the roundabout, take the right turn immediately before Boulogne Road direction.

A CWGC direction sign is on site. Enter the ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY by the left hand side main gate and follow CWGC signs within the Cemetery.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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