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Flying Officer Rooney Alexander Hodgins

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Military service

Service number: C426388
Age: 25
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: Experimental and Proving Establishment
Birth: April 3, 1923 Campbell's Bay
Enlistment: September 6, 1941 Ontario
Death: June 11, 1948 CFB Rockcliffe, Ontario

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Lot 17, Section 19, Grave 2
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Son of Alexander and Moletta (nee Rooney) Hodgins of Ottawa, Ontario. Brother of William, Bertal, Douglas, Mina, Evelyn, Joyce, Dorothy and Orsa Hodgins.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 4 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. II (2015 – ) Book of Remembrance.
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OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY contains 98 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 113 from the Second World War. Many of the graves are in the two veterans plots, where there is also a Cross of Sacrifice dedicated to all service casualties buried in the cemetery.

The OTTAWA CREMATION MEMORIAL is in a shelter adjoining the newer of the veterans plots in the cemetery and commemorates 26 Second World War servicemen whose remains were cremated elsewhere in Canada and the U.S.A.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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