Henry Wilbert Huhtala Aircraftman 2nd Class R/268508 Royal Canadian Air Force August 13, 1925 Windsor, Ontario August 4, 1943 Montreal, Quebec Montreal, Quebec 17 5 feet, 8½ inches Fair Blue Light Brown Single Apprentice Machinist Lutherian Jacob Huhtala (Father) Montreal, Quebec December 31, 1943 18 Montreal (Mount Royal) Cemetery, Quebec Sec. G.943. Grave 404

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Henry Wilbert Huhtala was the son of Jacob Nikolai Huhtala (1890-1978) and Elizabeth (Haukkala) Huhtala (1895-1978) of Montreal, Quebec. Henry completed his formal education in Windsor, Ontario between 1929 and 1939. In 1940-1941 he worked at a Grocery Firm in Montreal as a Sales Clerk and Deliveries. In 1941-1942 he was employed as a waiter with the Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal. Prior to enlistment with the RCAF, he was employed as an apprentice machinist with Electric Tamper and Equipment Ltd., in Montreal. His hobbies were photography and photo development, Model buildings and aircraft. Active in sports he played baseball, rugby, hockey, and was a skier and swimmer. He was fluent in English and Finnish. In 1942 and 1943 he served as a Cadet with No. 49 Air Cadet Squadron Griffintown Club in Montreal. Henry began his training in Canada on August 5, 1943. While training at No. 10 Bombing and Gunnery School , RCAF Station Mount Pleasant. On December 31, 1943, Fairey Battle No.2057, a drogue towing aircraft had three drogues hang up casing the plane to stall and crash three miles south of RCAF Mt. Pleasant, PEI. Aircraftman 2nd Class Douglas Milton Scanlon, aged 18, Flight Sergeant William James Pearson, aged 20, and Aircraftman 2nd Class, Henry Wilbert Huhtala were killed. Aircraftman 2nd Class, Henry Wilbert Huhtala is buried in the Montreal (Mount Royal) Cemetery, Quebec.