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Military service
Service number:
20276
Age:
32
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
Winter Experimental Establishment
Birth:
July 27, 1918
Berlin, Maryland
Enlistment:
December 8, 1941
Alberta
Death:
October 24, 1950
Ellensdale, Alberta
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
No 1, Sub Division M, Plot 166
Additional information
Son of John Richard and Myrtle Fern (nee Barbour) Coffey of Edmonton, Alberta. Husband of Anne Kathleen (nee McKenzie) and father of Kathleen and Janice of Edmonton, Alberta. Brother of Hornce, Ida, Barbara and Gladys.
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Commemorated on:
Page 15 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. II (2015 – ) Book of Remembrance.
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EDMONTON CEMETERY Alberta, Canada
The cemetery was formerly known as "Edmonton Protestant Cemetery" and contains graves of both world wars. There is also a Cross of Sacrifice, erected after the 1914-1918 War. There are now 80, 1914-1918 and over 50, 1939-1945 War casualties commemorated in this site.
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