Name:
John Huddleston
Rank:
Warrant Officer First Class
Serial Number:
R/106580
Unit:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death:
1944-04-15
State:
Oregon
Cemetery:
Stonefall Cemetery and Crematorium, Harrogate, Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire, England
Plot:
Section B
Row:
A
Grave:
8
Decoration:
Comments:
John Huddleston was born in 1924 in Canada. He was the son of John Huddleston, and of Hazel H. Huddleston, of Grants Pass, Oregon.
John served in the #1664 Heavy Conversion Unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flying Officer during World War II. He was killed on April 15, 1944, when his Halifax aircraft # EB 203 returned from a night cross-country training exercise and arrived over base just as a heavy rain shower started. The pilot was given permission to break through the cloud and join the circuit, nothing further was heard. The aircraft crashed and totally disintegrated two miles south of Ripon, Yorkshire, England, on the road to Bishop Moncton.
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