In memory of

Flight Lieutenant

Harry Thomas Amy

who died on 11 May 1944

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 424 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
  Rank Flight Lieutenant
  Service number C2233
  Date of death 19440511
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  C2233 Flight Lieutenant (No. 424 Tiger Squadron RCAF navigator) Harry Thomas Amy (b.1914) of Saskatoon was KIA 19440511 and is buried at the Guidel communal cemetery, Morbihan, France. Amy's Halifax did not return from a mine laying operation. He was the son of Ira Alfred and Emma (Mitchell) Amy who homesteaded NW18-16-7-W2 just southwest of Grenfell; Emma perished in the influenza pandemic and Ira was living at Watrous in the 1940s. Harry was born at Grenfell, educated there and at Saskatoon Tech and completed a BEng at the University of Saskatchewan in 1936 (he also played hockey for the Huskies and was a member of the university's boxing team). He worked for Yani gold mine at Boston Creek near Kirkland Lake, Ontario, but returned to university in 1939 and enlisted at Saskatoon the next year.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 344 - Corman Park
  Cemetery or memorial location Guidel communal cemetery, Morbihan, France    

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  Honour roll location(s) Grenfell
  Geo-memorial Amy Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 54.8°N / 102.2167°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 63L16
  Geo-memorial details West of Creighton.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19141007
  Place of birth Grenfell    
  Date of enlistment 19400612
  Place of enlistment Saskatoon    
  Residence on enlistment Saskatoon    
  Occupation engineer
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