In memory of

Flight Sergeant

Kenneth George Smalley

who died on 9 Oct 1943

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 218 Squadron, Royal Air Force
  Rank Flight Sergeant
  Service number R139880
  Date of death 19431009
  Cause of death killed in action
Narrative history
  R139880 Flight Sergeant (No. 218 Gold Coast Squadron RAF navigator) Kenneth George Smalley (b.1923) of Simpson was KIA 19431009 and is buried at Becklingen war cemetery southeast of Soltau, Germany. Smalley's Stirling went missing during a night raid on Bremen. He was the son of Harry and Lillian Dorothy (Lowe) Smalley, Harry was a grain buyer at Simpson through the 1930s and later worked at Humboldt. Kenneth went straight from high school at Simpson to the RCAF at Saskatoon late in 1941.

SA Driscoll and DB Fulton died on the same flight.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 281 - Wood Creek
  Cemetery or memorial location Becklingen war cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany    

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  Honour roll location(s) Humboldt
  Geo-memorial Smalley Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 56.6667°N / 106.3167°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 74B9
  Geo-memorial details South of Haultain Lake.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19230804
  Place of birth Simpson    
  Date of enlistment 19411128
  Place of enlistment Saskatoon    
  Residence on enlistment Simpson    
  Occupation student
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