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Pilot Officer John Evelyn Wreford Birkett

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Military service

Service number: J/12726
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: Overseas Aircraft Dispatch Unit. 45 Group RAF Ferry Command
Death: June 22, 1943

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 2. Column 3.
Additional information
Born in Kenya, moved to UK at age 12. Moved to Canada in 1939 at age 17 for higher studies. Enlisted in the RCAF in June 1941. Son of Norman Wreford and Kathleen (nee Wells) Birkett, of Truro, Cornwall, UK.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 137 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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