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Military service
Service number:
R/54197
Age:
28
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
May 25, 1913
Carleton Place, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 19, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
June 17, 1941
Shoute, Devonshire, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. Z.K. Grave 42.
Additional information
Son of William James Warren and Isobel Snedden (nee Cochrane) Warren of Carleton Place, Ontario; husband of Ordelia Giles (nee West) Warren of Ottawa, Ontario. Brother of Isobel, Jack and William, predeceased brother David.
On Wednesday, September 17, 1941, Miss Hilda Cram's class held a remembrance service in Memorial Park in Carleton Place, Ontario. All of the pupils placed flowers at the base of the cenotaph's single shaft. Prayers were said and the oath of remembrance prayer was recited. Leonard Baird sounded 'Last Post' and 'Reveille' on the trumpet. The class was the students taught by Jimmy Warren before his enlistment for overseas service.
The Town of Carleton Place remembered Sergeant Warren by naming a street in his honour.
Additional citations
Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volonteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Sergeant James Snedden Warren
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Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
Inscription to the memory of Sergeant JAMES SNEDDEN WARREN on the family grave marker in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Almonte, Ontario. -
Newspaper clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator June 30, 1941 -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant James Snedden Warren
Digital gallery of
Sergeant James Snedden Warren
Digital gallery of
Sergeant James Snedden Warren
Digital gallery of
Sergeant James Snedden Warren
Digital gallery of
Sergeant James Snedden Warren
Digital gallery of
Sergeant James Snedden Warren
Digital gallery of
Sergeant James Snedden Warren
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 47 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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EXETER HIGHER CEMETERY Devon, United Kingdom
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