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Flight Lieutenant Evans Farrell Ashdown

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Military service

Service number: 27110
Age: 33
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: No. 2 Flying Training School
Birth: April 14, 1918 Rossduff, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: May 9, 1940 Saskatchewan
Death: January 10, 1952 Fraserwood, Manitoba

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 2412
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Son of Alexander and Florence Ashdown. Husband of Shirley Vera Ashdown. Father of Shirley Barbara, Richard Alec, and Katherine Lois. Brother of Daniel, Roy and Lorayne.

WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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