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Cecil Boffin
February 17, 1928 - February 10, 2016
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<div itemprop="description">Cecil Stanley Boffin was born in Letchworth Garden City in 1928 and the family moved to Hitchin when he was five years of age. Both towns are some 30 miles north of London, United Kingdom. Here he spent his school years and started his first job at Barclays Bank, but was called up for national service at the end of WWII. He chose to serve in the RAF and for a time was stationed in Japan, somewhere near Hiroshima, with the Allied Occupation Forces. <br />Upon returning to civilian life he was employed by an engineering company in Letchworth as an accountant until deciding to emigrate to Canada in 1966. At first he lived and worked in the Toronto area before moving to a company in Midland, Ontario. Whilst in the Toronto area he undertook flying lessons and obtained his private pilot's licence for light single engine aircraft Unfortunately, about 1980 he had to take early retirement for health reasons and lived quietly in Midland for the rest of his life. <br />He always seemed to prefer the slower pace of small town life rather than the hustle and bustle of city life. He had always been interested in the New Orleans type jazz music of the 1930's and 1940's and managed to accumulate a fine collection of diskettes of that type of music. He also became very interested in the RAF during WWII, especially the operations of Bomber Command as his brother had served in that field, and became quite an expert on their operations with his extensive collection of books, magazines and articles, all in mint condition. For this he was a long-time supporter of the RCAF War Museum in Hamilton, Ontario. <br />Although we lived very different types of lives I, as his only surviving brother in Montreal, will certainly miss not being able to pick up the phone and chat with him from time to time and visit him when in the Toronto area, as he had been part of my life for more than eighty years. Although suffering from wretched health problems, he never complained and seemed content with the type of life he had built in Midland. I am sure that he will be missed by many of the local inhabitants of that town, who may not have known him personally, but would have seen him at some point during those many years. <br />R.I.P. <br /> <br />John Boffin, brother in Montreal, Canada <br /> <br />boffin@videotron.ca <br /></div>