In memory of

Pilot Officer

Earl Robert Hale

who died on 13 Aug 1940

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RAF
  Unit No. 82 Squadron, Royal Air Force
  Rank Pilot Officer
  Service number 42219
  Date of death 19400813
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  42219 Pilot Officer (No. 82 Squadron RAF pilot) Earl Robert Hale (b.1915) of Vancouver, British Columbia, was KIA 19400813. Hale worked as a journalist for a time before enlisting in the RAF at Vancouver in 1938 and proceeding to England for training. He died in a daylight raid on a German airfield at Aalborg in northeastern Denmark and his remains (which were not recovered until 1995) are buried at nearby Vadum churchyard, Jutland. Eleven of the twelve Blenheims that participated in the raid were shot down, and 21 of the 33 aircrew perished. Earl was the son of Robert Ethelbert and Maud (Cunningham) Hale who came from Souris, Manitoba, to homestead N30-22-23-W3 northeast of Sceptre in 1909 (they subseequently retired to North Vancouver). Earl was educated at Lemsford.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 230 - Clinworth
  Cemetery or memorial location Vadum churchyard, Jutland, Denmark    

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  Honour roll location(s) Lemsford
  Geo-memorial Hale Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 55.35°N / 104.5167°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 73P7
  Geo-memorial details The family has placed a memorial plaque at the lake south of Stanley Mission.
Personal information
  Date of birth 1915
  Place of birth Lemsford    
  Date of enlistment 1938
  Place of enlistment Vancouver, British Columbia    
  Residence on enlistment Vancouver, British Columbia    
  Occupation journalist
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