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Military service
Service number:
R176120
Age:
29
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
Training Command Headquarters, RCAF
Birth:
March 25, 1923
Langbank, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
September 5, 1952
Ontario
Death:
September 28, 1952
Oshawa, Ontario
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 7, Plot 269, Family Plot
Additional information
Son of Frederick E. and Elsie M. Merkel. Husband of Marguerite Merkel. Father of Norma M. and Carol M. Merkel. Brother of Ernest Merkel, Alice Howlett, Emily Beer, Stella Ingram and Gladys Ecklund.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 32 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. II (2015 – ) Book of Remembrance.
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WHITEWOOD CEMETERY Saskatchewan, Canada
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