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Warrant Officer Class I James Alexander Riddell

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Military service

Service number: R/67554
Age: 27
Rank: Warrant Officer Class I
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 239 Wing Base RAF
Enlistment: August 12, 1940 Ontario
Death: August 3, 1942 Cairo, Egypt

Burial/memorial information

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: 2. D. 10.
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Son of Andrew and Margaret (nee Askin) Riddell, of Windsor, Ontario. Brother of Helen, Margaret, Grace, Anne, Winnifred and Flying Officer Robert Gordon Riddell, 401 Squadron, killed in action 5 October 1942. Warrant Officer I Riddell is also commemorated on the Masonic War Memorial in Malden Park, Windsor, Ontario.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 110 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY Egypt

Heliopolis, a major suburb of Cairo, lies 10 kilometres to the north-east of the main city centre, approximately 6 kilometres from the airport.

The HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY is situated opposite El Banat (Girls) College in Nabil el Wakkard Street, and access is from this street.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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