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Military service
Service number:
11216
Age:
23
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Navy
Division:
HMCS Shearwater
Birth:
September 27, 1928
Verulam, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 25, 1949
Death:
April 17, 1952
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Son of Joseph and Withelmine of Dunsford, Ontario. Husband of Donna (nee Rishel) Hunter. Father of Katheryn Hunter. Brother of Earl, Frederick, James and Josephine Hunter.
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Commemorated on:
Page 26 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. II (2015 – ) Book of Remembrance.
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