In memory of

Flight Sergeant

Ronald Alfred Kinnee

who died on 15 Sep 1942

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 419 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
  Rank Flight Sergeant
  Service number R91915
  Date of death 19420915
  Cause of death died of non-combat causes
Narrative history
  R91915 Flight Sergeant (No. 419 Moose Squadron RCAF observer) Ronald Alfred Kinnee (b.1917) of Carlyle died 19420915 and is buried at St. Nicholas churchyard extension, Cottesmore, Rutland, England. Kinnee's Wellington was on a two hour oil consumption test when it nose dived and crashed at Thursby east of Stamford, Lincolnshire. He was the son of James Wesley (Wes), a barber who came from Toronto in 1909, and Ruby Leslie (Ham) Kinnee of Carberry, Manitoba. Ron studied civil engineering at the University of Saskatchewan for three years before enlisting at Winnipeg early in 1942, and left a wife Lillian Catherine (Dobson) at Bournemouth, Hampshire.

WA Jahnke, LO Luten, GW Wilson and ED Lawley died on the same flight.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 63 - Moose Mountain
  Cemetery or memorial location St Nicholas churchyard, Cottesmore, Rutland, England    

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  Honour roll location(s) Carlyle
  Geo-memorial Kinnee Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 55.15°N / 104.35°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 73P1
  Geo-memorial details Just east of Hunter Bay, Lac la Ronge.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19170914
  Place of birth Carlyle    
  Date of enlistment 19410207
  Place of enlistment Winnipeg, Manitoba    
  Residence on enlistment Carlyle    
  Occupation engineer
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