Hector Patrick Samuel Leading Aircraftman R/171264 Royal Canadian Air Force December 12, 1924 Montreal, Quebec April 11, 1942 No. 13 RCAF Recruiting Centre, Montreal, QC Montreal, Quebec 17 5 feet, 10 ½ inches Fair Blonde Blue Single Bell Telephone Co. Installer Roman Catholic Eva Marie Louise Samuel (Mother) June 15, 1943 18 Montreal (Notre Dame des Neiges) Cemetery, Quebec Section M, Lot 3410, Grave 3219

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Hector Patrick Samuel was the son Hector Patrick Samuel and Eva Marie Louise Samuel, of Montreal, Quebec, and the brother of Robert C. Samuel (d. 1930), Gordon W. Samuel, Douglas G. Samuel, Muriel M. Samuel, Mildred Samuel, Gertrude F. Samuel, and Dorothy V. Samuel. Hector enjoyed hockey, baseball, swimming, football, and bowling, and completed his fourth year of high school at the Montreal Catholic School in 1941. He was working as a Bell Telephone Company installer prior to enlistment. At enlistment it was noted he would make very good air crew material, and that he was wide awake, keen, and enthusiastic with a sincere, reserved, and intelligent approach. During Air Bomber training, Hector Patrick Samuel lost his life in a flying accident at 6:55 pm on June 15, 1943. The incident occurred when Anson No. 7339 collided with Anson No. 7566, the aircraft on which he was aboard. The two Anson aircraft crashed about three miles east of Willow Grove Bombing Target, flying from the No. 1 Bombing and Gunnery School at Jarvis, Ontario. The four crew on Anson 7566 were killed, as well as three of the four crew on Anson 7339. The pilot of Anson 7339, Pilot Officer R. C. Herring (Service No. J/24294), survived the crash. Leading Aircraftman John Henry Kearney, also an 18-year-old trainee, was a casualty on Anson 7566.