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Third Class Constable John Terrence Hoey

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 20307
Age: 21
Rank: Third Class Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: B Division
Birth: April 4, 1937
Enlistment: January 6, 1958
Death: November 7, 1958 Botwood
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3/Cst. Hoey wanted to be a police officer all his life. He was devoted to his church and helped build the St. Anne’s Church in Peterborough. Unfortunately, the very first funeral held at the church was his own. He was shot while investigating a complaint at Botwood, Newfoundland. 3/Cst. Hoey was only three weeks out of training when he was killed. He is buried in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Peterborough, Ontario.

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Page 81 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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