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ALEXANDER GRAHAM SCOTT 1925-1945 BY LEILA KALFON AND BRENDAN EDWARDS. Biography Alexander Graham Scott was born on the 21st of April 1925 in Iroquios falls, Ontario. After graduating from Westmount High School in 1942, he joined the Canadian Army. He was a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The RCAF were committed to defending the North American continent from the skies. He was killed in 1945 on the 19th of April in an air crash near Hamburg Germany in the closing days of World War II. He was buried in a British cementary in Ohlsdorf, Hamburg, Germany. His name is on his family's tombstone in the Mount Royal Cementary. His mother Clarissa Donalda Hemming was born in 1896 and died in 1953. His father Arthur Alexander Scott was born in 1889 and died in 1955, two years after his wife. This is the family tombstone "roobweb.com Home Page." rootsweb.com Home Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2014 "Find A Grave-Millions of Cemetary Records." Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetary Records. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2014

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  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM SCOTT 1925-1945

    BY LEILA KALFON AND BRENDAN EDWARDS.

    Biography Alexander Graham Scott was born on the 21st of April 1925 in Iroquios falls, Ontario. After graduating from Westmount High School in 1942, he joined the Canadian Army. He was a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The RCAF were committed to defending the North American continent from the skies. He was killed in 1945 on the 19th of April in an air crash near Hamburg Germany in the closing days of World War II. He was buried in a British cementary in Ohlsdorf, Hamburg, Germany. His name is on his family's tombstone in the Mount Royal Cementary. His mother Clarissa Donalda Hemming was born in 1896 and died in 1953. His father Arthur Alexander Scott was born in 1889 and died in 1955,

    two years after his wife. This is the family tombstone

    "roobweb.com Home Page." rootsweb.com Home Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2014 "Find A Grave-Millions of Cemetary Records." Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetary Records. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2014

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