DEEBANK, PERCY JOHN Rank: Aircraftman 1st Class Service No: R/62640 Date of Death: 08/11/1940 Age: 20 Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force Grave Reference: Grave 45. Cemetery: NORTH BRANCH CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Samuel Joseph and Sadie Deebank, of Cornwall.http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2687239/DEEBANK,%20PERCY%20JOHN
good day cl1.m.today.12:08am.re:remembering today.8/11/40.aircraftman 1st class p.j.deebank,r/6264o royal canadian air force.age 20.may he rest in peace,regards bernard85
OK, I'll bite the bullet - Percy is the only CWGC burial at North Branch, Martintown, Ontario. That must be a lonely place for him and there HAS to be more of a story here..... Anyone have any more to add? The R/ prefix is an RCAF one, and not an RAF lad in training, so presumably he must have been a resident of the area before enlisting, as if he died there in an accident, surely he'd have been buried at a less "remote" location?
Drowned when his canoe capsized in Lake Erie. He was serving with No.1 Bombing and Gunnery School and entered the water off Hoover Point to recover a drogue. Ross