Military service
Service number:
135471
Age:
21
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
440 All Weather (Fighter) Squadron
Birth:
September 28, 1937
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Enlistment:
September 7, 1956
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
April 28, 1959
Drachenbrohn, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 1, Row C, Plot 3
Additional information
Son of Stanley and Doris May (nee Sutton) Hirst of Romsey, Hants, England.
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Flying Officer David Shelley Hirst
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Flying Officer David Shelley Hirst
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Flying Officer David Shelley Hirst
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 92 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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