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Flight Lieutenant Edward John Walshe

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Military service

Service number: 130045
Age: 34
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: 109 Composite Unit, RCAF
Birth: October 4, 1929 Fort MacLeod, Alberta
Enlistment: January 2, 1950
Death: December 30, 1963 Marville, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 2, Row H, Plot 3
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Son of Richard F. and Ellen Walshe. Husband of Teresa K. Walshe. Father of Mary K., Edward J., Elaine A. and William R. Walshe. Brother of Maureen Briscoe.

CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Choloy is a village and commune in the Department of the Meurthe-et-Moselle, 28 kilometres west of Nancy and some 5 kilometres west of Toul, a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy. The village is south of the River Moselle on the minor road (D11B) from Toul to the neighbouring village of Foug. The CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY is 3 kilometres west of Toul on the north side of the D11B road.

The Choloy War Cemetery is the last resting place of casualties from the First and Second World Wars and is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is also the final resting place for many Royal Canadian Air Force members and their families who died while serving in Europe as part of 1 Air Division between 1953 and 1967 and other Service Members serving with NATO in Germany following Canada's departure from France.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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