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Flying Officer ( Pilot ) Arthur James Herbert Horrell

Birth: 4 Apr 1920
Windsor, Essex County, Ontario, Canada
Death: 11 Oct 1944 (aged 24)
Ysselsteyn, Venray Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands
Burial: Venray War Cemetery

Venray, Venray Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands Add to Map
Plot: I. E. 12.
Memorial ID: 18397470 View Source

F/O Arthur J. Horrell and F/O Louis P. Piché took-off in Auster NJ669 (127 Wing) on a ferry flight from Grave,Holland to Antwerp,Belgium to pick up a Spitfire aircraft. Strayed off course and was shot down by German 20mm Flak. Crashed near the farms of Fleurkens & Jeurissen along the Deurneseweg .Both were Spitfire pilots on 443 Sqn (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Temporary buried Deurne,Netherlands.
Reburied 21/06/1946 Venray warcemetery.

F/O Arthur J. Horrell and F/O Louis P. Piché took-off in Auster NJ669 (127 Wing) on a ferry flight from Grave,Holland to Antwerp,Belgium to pick up a Spitfire aircraft. Strayed off course and was shot down by German 20mm Flak. Crashed near the farms of Fleurkens & Jeurissen along the Deurneseweg .Both were Spitfire pilots on 443 Sqn (Royal Canadian Air Force)
Temporary buried Deurne,Netherlands.
Reburied 21/06/1946 Venray warcemetery.

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J/21413

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Shirley Edith Austin Cody

1922–2004 (m. 1943)

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Maintained by: Fred
Originally Created by: International Wargraves Photography Project
Added: Mar 14, 2007
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18397470/arthur_james_herbert-horrell: accessed ), memorial page for Flying Officer ( Pilot ) Arthur James Herbert Horrell (4 Apr 1920–11 Oct 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18397470, citing Venray War Cemetery, Venray, Venray Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands; Maintained by Fred (contributor 46792340).

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