Nova Scotia marriage-
Edith Elizabeth Huntington and Clarence Nathan Cole married on 5 Sept 1943 in Sydney, Cape Breton County; marriage record can be found in Registration Year: 1943 - Book: 121 - Page: 437.
The engine of 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron's Lockheed Ventura (#2171) aircraft failed on take-off, causing the aircraft to crash at Goose Bay, Labrador in the Dominion of Newfoundland and killing all five air crew members and all six passengers who were aboard. The air crew servicemen who perished in this accident were:-
Pilot Officer William Arthur HARRIS,
Pilot Officer Donald William HUME,
Leading Aircraftman William Godfrey LEARD,
Pilot Officer John Charles TANNER and
Warrant Officer Class II Melville Stanley WOOD
The servicemen passengers who perished in this accident were:-
Leading Aircraftman Henry Hedley BELL,
Corporal Clarence Nathan COLE,
Sergeant Myles Edward DUQUETTE,
Leading Aircraftman Harold Archibald STEPHENSON and
Leading Aircraftman Lionel Charles ST. LOUIS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Corporal
Service Number: R/65379
Age: 22
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
Son of the Rev. Nathaniel Cole and Gertrude (née Pike) Cole [both parents born in Newfoundland] of Renfrew, Ontario, Canada; husband of Edith Elizabeth (née Huntington) Cole of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Corporal Clarence Nathan Cole is commemorated on Page 276 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Nova Scotia marriage-
Edith Elizabeth Huntington and Clarence Nathan Cole married on 5 Sept 1943 in Sydney, Cape Breton County; marriage record can be found in Registration Year: 1943 - Book: 121 - Page: 437.
The engine of 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron's Lockheed Ventura (#2171) aircraft failed on take-off, causing the aircraft to crash at Goose Bay, Labrador in the Dominion of Newfoundland and killing all five air crew members and all six passengers who were aboard. The air crew servicemen who perished in this accident were:-
Pilot Officer William Arthur HARRIS,
Pilot Officer Donald William HUME,
Leading Aircraftman William Godfrey LEARD,
Pilot Officer John Charles TANNER and
Warrant Officer Class II Melville Stanley WOOD
The servicemen passengers who perished in this accident were:-
Leading Aircraftman Henry Hedley BELL,
Corporal Clarence Nathan COLE,
Sergeant Myles Edward DUQUETTE,
Leading Aircraftman Harold Archibald STEPHENSON and
Leading Aircraftman Lionel Charles ST. LOUIS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Corporal
Service Number: R/65379
Age: 22
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
Son of the Rev. Nathaniel Cole and Gertrude (née Pike) Cole [both parents born in Newfoundland] of Renfrew, Ontario, Canada; husband of Edith Elizabeth (née Huntington) Cole of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Corporal Clarence Nathan Cole is commemorated on Page 276 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Gravesite Details
In 1944, this cemetery..'Joint Services Cemetery'..was in the Dominion of Newfoundland, not in Canada. Newfoundland became the tenth Canadian province in 1949.
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