In memory of

Flying Officer

Garnet Oliver Carefoot

who died on 19 Nov 1943

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 431 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
  Rank Flying Officer
  Service number J10796
  Date of death 19431119
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  J10796 Flying Officer (No. 431 Iroquois Squadron pilot) Garnet Oliver Carefoot (b.1916) of Cantuar was KIA 19431119 and is buried at the Abbéville communal cemetery extension, Somme, France. Carefoot's Halifax was hit by flak returning from an attack on Ludwigshafen, Germany. He was the son of William Alexander and Annie Ethel (Galbraith) Carefoot. Garnet was born at Beverley, attended Swift Current collegiate and was farming east of Cantuar when he enlisted at Regina in 1941.

He and HR Carefoot were first cousins from Cantuar northwest of Swift Current. Their Irish fathers came west from Collingwood, Simcoe Co., Ontario, as teachers in 1906. Both also homesteaded in the Simcoe district, and Reg and Garnet both attended that school.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 137 - Swift Current
  Cemetery or memorial location Abbéville communal cemetery, Somme, France    

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  Honour roll location(s) Swift Current
Yellow Lake
  Geo-memorial Carefoot Lakes, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 57.7833°N / 103.4167°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 64E14
  Geo-memorial details South of Wollaston Lake.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19160718
  Place of birth Beverley    
  Date of enlistment 19410623
  Place of enlistment Regina    
  Residence on enlistment Cantuar    
  Occupation farmer
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