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Flying Officer Acton Farquhar Daunt

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Military service

Service number: J/1999
Age: 25
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth: July 23, 1918 Lillooet, British Columbia
Enlistment: May 9, 1941 British Columbia
Death: October 2, 1943

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GANDER CEMETERY
Grave reference: Plot 1. Row 1. Grave 4.
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Son of Acton O'Neill Daunt and Elizabeth Daunt, of New Westminster, British Columbia; husband of Marjorie Daunt, of Sydenham, Ontario. Brother of Henry Thomas, Mary Dorthea, Florence Elizabeth and Margaret Alice. Flying Officer Daunt attended New West Central Public School from 1924 to 1931, Duke of Connaught High School from 1931 to 1935 and the University of British Columbia in 1941. He enjoyed swimming, skating, rugby, boxing and skiing. His favorite hobby was auto mechanics.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 151 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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GANDER CEMETERY Newfoundland, Canada

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