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Military service
Service number:
J/12315
Age:
25
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
April 14, 1917
Timmins, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 16, 1941
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
November 26, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. 34. Lot 48 N E Grave 1
Additional information
Son of John and Leino Tuhkanen. Brother of Victor Tuhkanen, of Haileybury, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Walter Tuhkanen
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Grave marker
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Memorial
Our Lady of the Airways Chapel 337 Breadner Boulevard, Ottawa has a stained glass window dedicated to the members of RCAF Station Uplands who gave their lives in the Second World War. With input from various sources, so far there were 49 deaths of service personnel that were stationed at Uplands. -
Photo of WALTER TUHKANEN
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Photo of WALTER TUHKANEN
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Walter Tuhkanen
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Walter Tuhkanen
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Walter Tuhkanen
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Walter Tuhkanen
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Walter Tuhkanen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 120 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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