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Rank AC2, Flight Sergeant
Service # R209714
Unit # R.C.A.F.
Resident 24 Third St., Chatham
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The son of Mrs. Louis Challinor of 24 Third St., Chatham, ON. The CDN 25/04/44 reported that Jack a had graduated as a WAG (Wireless Air Gunner) from the No. 3 Wireless School in Winnipeg, MB. He was stationed at Ancienne Lorette, Quebec to take the navigator’s course as a wireless navigator.

Jack trained in Canada for two years. He then went overseas for six months and was promoted to Flight Sergeant.

Discharged August 1945.

He was trained as a navigator on a Lancaster bomber and served in the theatre of war between 1943 and 1945.  He died at age 50 of leukemia in 1974.  Info submitted by his son, John Challinor II.

John Best ChallinorSquadron of John Best ChallinorJOHN BEST CHALLINOR SERVICE RECORD (2)

John Best ChallinorJOHN BEST CHALLINOR SERVICE MEDAL NOTIFICATION

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Sources IODE(N), CCI-RH
Birthplace Chatham, Ontario
Religion Baptist
When Enlisted May 19th, 1943
Next of Kin Mother- Mrs. Gladys A. Challinor

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