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Military service
Service number:
J/17510
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
420 Sqdn.
Death:
June 1, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 176.
Additional information
Son of William and Thelma W. King, of Kingston, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer William Robert King
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer William Robert King is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer William Robert King is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kingston Whig-Standard. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Group Photo
21 May 1943 RAF Station Middleton St-George. The crew of an R.C.A.F. Wellington bomber from 420 Squadron, Left to right, Pilot Sgt Alexander Theodore Sodero; Bomb Aimer Sgt William Robert King, Navigator F/O George Henry Hubbell; Air Gunner F/Sgt Harry Llewellyn Davis; Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Sgt Robert Spencer Hollowell. They will all be lost on 1 June 1943 while transiting from the United Kingdom to North Africa. (RCAF photo PL-15972)
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Robert King
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Robert King
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Robert King
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Robert King
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 177 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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