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Sergeant Harry Walter Hunt

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Military service

Service number: 580545
Age: 23
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: royal air force
Division: 53 Sqdn.
Death: July 25, 1940

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 8. J. 6.
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Son of Walter James Hunt and Mary Theressa Hunt; husband of Winifred Grace Hunt, of Stoke Newington, London. Sergeant Hunt's father set aside sufficient funds to provide that a scholarship fund to be set up in his son's honour at the Collingwood Collegiate High School, Collingwood, Ontario where he was a student. A Memorial plaque hangs in the foyer of the school which bears his name and those of other alumni who lost their lives in the Second World War.

JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY Netherlands

The town of Nijmegen is 16 km south of Arnhem. JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY is 4 km south west of Nijmegen, 1 km south of the main Grave-Nijmegen road. Folowing the A73 exit at the junction Nijmegen Wijchen taking following directions to Nijmegen along the A32b entering Nijmegen on the Graafseweg. On reaching the Industrieterrein a Commission signpost directs visitors to turn left onto the Weg Door Jonkerbos. Shortly after appears a further signpost showing the left hand turning onto Oude Mollenhutseweg. The JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY is located on 150 metres after entering the Oude Mollenhutseweg on the right hand side of the road.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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