Roy Neil Graham Leading Aircraftman R175140 Royal Canadian Air Force March 25, 1924 Cleveland, Ohio June 23, 1942 No. 11 RCAF Recruiting Centre, Toronto, Ontario Toronto, Ontario 18 5 feet, 6 inches Fair Brown Blue Single Grocery Clerk Church of England Andrew Neil Graham (Father) February 25, 1943 18 Toronto (Prospect) Cemetery, Ontario Naval and Military Plot, Section 1, Grave 545

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Roy Neil Graham was the son of Andrew Neil Graham and Elma Violet (Dier) Graham, and the brother of Marion Eileen Graham, Douglas Graham, and Bruce Albert Graham. At the time of Roy's enlistment in June 1942 during World War II, his father, Leading Aircraftman Andrew Graham, served as a clerk at RCAF Eglington. Roy lived in Newboro, Ontario, where his father was born, and Toronto growing up. Roy, who had a fondness for hockey, swimming, and softball, attended high school in Elgin, Ontario. From 1940 to 1942, he worked as a delivery boy for Show Crafts, a labourer for Normans Wood in Coal, and a store clerk for the Frontenac Floor & Wall Tile Company; all in Kingston. The family moved to Toronto in December of 1941, and for a time Roy also worked as a grocery clerk for the Loblaws Groceterias there. In February of 1943, Roy was undergoing training at the No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School (2 EFTS) at RCAF Station Fort Williams in Ontario (now Thunder Bay). Tragically, during a solo flight in a Tiger Moth trainer aircraft, Leading Aircraftman Roy Neil Graham lost his life when the plane he was piloting spun into the ground and crashed while exiting a steep turn, approximately 5 or 6 miles from the aerodrome.