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Grave: 25. B. 4

Isolated Burial


A standard Commonwealth Grave Commission (CWGC) inscribed gravestone.

 

Pilot Officer Earl W. “Tootie” Mason was born in Pitt, Minnesota in 1917. 

When WWII broke out, Earl resolved to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, which he did having gained his high school diploma in June 1940. Having completed his basic training and shipped over to England he went through operational traing and was assigned to 121 [Eagle] Sqn RAF. On September 15th 1941, Earl was killed in a flying accident when he did a slow roll, in his Mk II Hurricane, too near the ground and crashed at High Toynton, near Horncastle. KIFA.

 

From the CWGC Files:

PILOT OFFICER EARL WALLACE MASON

 

Service Number: J/15009

Regiment & Unit/Ship: Royal Canadian Air Force; 121 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.

 

Died 15 September 1941

Age 24 years old

 

Country of Service: Canadian

 

Additional Info: Son of Nathan and Agnes Mason, of Hanley, Saskatchewan, Canada.

 

Personal Inscription: OUR BELOVED SON. "LEST WE FORGET" 

 

Monument Text:

PILOT OFFICER

 

E.W. MASON

PILOT

ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE

15 SEPTEMBER 1941   AGE 24

 

(CHRISTIAN CROSS)

 

OUR BELOVED SON. "LEST WE FORGET"

 

Commemorates:

People:

Earl Wallace "Tootie" Mason

Units:

121st Eagle Squadron

Eagle Squadron

Eagle Squadron (RAF)

Royal Air Force (RAF)

Royal Canadian Air Force

Wars:

WWII

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