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Pilot Officer Paul Amos Rogers

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Military service

Service number: J/15115
Age: 22
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 31 Operational Training Unit
Birth: October 18, 1919 Fielding, New Brunswick
Enlistment: June 5, 1940 New Brunswick
Death: August 10, 1942 Dalhousie Mountain, Pictou, Nova Scotia

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Division L, Grave 1, Block 8
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Son of Nelson Burt and Lottie Hazel (nee Gaunce) Rogers, of Fielding, New Brunswick. Husband of Mable Angela (nee Fowler) Rogers, of Edmonton, Alberta.

Brother of Ira, Gifford, Earl, Eddy, Frank, Rodney, Samuel, Eva, Edna and Sergeant Barney Andrew Rogers, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

A dedication service took place at 2:00 p.m. on 10 August 2008, the 66th anniversary of the crash of Hudson bomber, BW 401 which took the lives of four Canadians, Sergeant Howard J. 'Jim' Vincent, Pilot Officer John Kenneth 'Jack' Hobson, Pilot Officer Paul Amos Rogers and Sergeant Arnold William Cooke and Pilot Officer John Bursill from Campbelltown, New South Wales.

The church service which was held at Durham Presbyterian Church followed by family of the crew and other dignitaries being transported to the memorial site where a military-style ceremony took place. There was an unveiling and consecration of the Memorial Stone and Plaque.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 111 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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EDMONTON CEMETERY Alberta, Canada

The cemetery was formerly known as "Edmonton Protestant Cemetery" and contains graves of both world wars. There is also a Cross of Sacrifice, erected after the 1914-1918 War. There are now 80, 1914-1918 and over 50, 1939-1945 War casualties commemorated in this site.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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