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Flying Officer Richard Michael Hastings Purdon

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Military service

Service number: J/16351
Age: 21
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 3 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: April 28, 1922 Vancouver, British Columbia
Enlistment: February 24, 1941 British Columbia
Death: June 29, 1943 Off the coast of Dunkirk, France

Burial/memorial information

DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY
Grave reference: Plot 2 Row 4 Grave 14.
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Son of Richard Henry Featherstonhaugh Purdon and Mary Barbara (nee Bostock) Purdon, of West Vancouver, British Columbia. Brother of Mary Gwendoline and Audrey Felicite.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 205 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY Nord, France

DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY is at the south-eastern corner of the town of Dunkirk, immediately south of the canal and on the road to Veurne (Furnes) in Belgium. The British War Graves Plot is divided from the main cemetery by a hedge, and is entered through the columns of the Dunkirk Memorial.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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