Birth Date: 1921-January-12
Born: Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada
Parents: Son of Thomas Edward and Alice Ellen (nee Dowdall) Rathwell, of Carleton Place, Ontario
Spouse:
Home: Carleton Place, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
175 (F) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Stop At Nothing
Base
RAF Warmwell
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/82227
Flight Sergeant Rathwell had previously been employed by the Royal Bank of Canada in his hometown of Carleton Place, Ontario from September 1939 until he enlisted December 1940. He graduated from training at #6 Service Flying Training School, Dunnville, Ontario in September 1941 and posted overseas the same month, despite having been slightly injured on August 15, 1941 in an auto collision at the intersection of Highways 7 and 41
175 Squadron (Stop At Nothing) RAF Warmwell. Flight Sergeant E E Rathwell (RCAF) lost his life when Hurricane II aircraft HL 723 crashed into the English Channel while on a training flight to practice dive bombing on a Motor Torpedo Boat
175 Squadron (Stop At Nothing) RAF Warmwell. Flight Sergeant E E Rathwell (RCAF) lost his life when Hurricane II aircraft HL 723 crashed into the English Channel while on a training flight to practice dive bombing on a Motor Torpedo Boat
Carleton Place, Ontario
Enlisted Staff - RBC
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)