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Albert Clifford Challis

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Albert Clifford Challis

October 5, 1942
Finchingfield, Essex, United Kingdom

Military Service

Service Number:

R/82327

Age:

22

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

425 Squadron

Additional Information

Born:

August 31, 1920
Cobourg, Ontario

Enlistment:

December 19, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario

Son of Albert Edward Challis and Edith Lilian Hemming, of Ottawa, Ontario.

He was a signal soldier with the 2nd Company of the 3rd Division of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals – NPAM – in Ottawa, Ontario, service number 1463, from October 30, 1936 to April 9, 1940. He served in Canada and Great Britain. He had 650 days of service, including 270 overseas.

Commemorated on Page 63 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

SAFFRON WALDEN CEMETERY
Essex, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

Compartment 39. Grave 14.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Albert Clifford Challis is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flight Sergeant Albert Clifford Challis is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Albert Clifford Challis is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flight Sergeant Albert Clifford Challis is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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    Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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    Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star January 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star January 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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