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Bennett, John Arnold
Service No.
FX 606923
Rank:
Acting Leading Airman
No 1 Naval Air Gunner School
Date of Death:
October 20, 1944
Age at Death:
18
Cemetery:
Mountain Cemetery Yarmouth, N S
Burial Place:
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Son of Alfred Arnold and Gertrude Matilda Bennett, of Surbiton, Surrey, England.
On the evening of October 20, 1944, two Anson aircraft (#11233 and #7146) on a training flight were returning to
RCAF Station Yarmouth when they collided in mid-air. The two pilots and four Telegraphist Air Gunners were killed.
John Arnold Bennett