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Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and Bar
Digital gallery of Flying Officer William Lidstone McKnight
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Photo of William McNight
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From the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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From the Edmonton Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of William McNight
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Group Photo
Battle-hardened pilots of No.242 (Canadian) Fighter Squadron pose in front of the Commanding Officer's Hawker Hurricane Mk.I at RAF Station Duxford. (L- R) D.W. Crowley-Milling (RAF), P/O HUGH NORMAN TAMBLYN from Yorkton, Saskatchewan-killed in action 3 April 1941, F/L Stan Turner from Toronto, Ontario, P/O Norman Neil Campbell from St.Thomas, Ontario-killed in action 17 October 1940. P/O William 'Willie' Lidstone McKnight from Edmonton, Alberta-killed in action 12 January 1941, S/L D.R.S 'Douglas' Bader-Commanding Officer of No. 242 (Canadian) Fighter Squadron, F/L G.E. Ball (RAF)-killed in action after Battle of Britain, P/O M.G. Homer (RAF)-killed in action 27 September 1940, P/O M.K. Brown of Kincardine, Ontario - killed in flying accident on 21 February, 1941.<P> Submitted for the project: Operation Picture Me -
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From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram July 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star October 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star January 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star December 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star February 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram June 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram February 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram December 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram January 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram August 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram August 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Owen Sound Sun Times 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Lidstone McKnight
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Lidstone McKnight
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Lidstone McKnight
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Lidstone McKnight
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Lidstone McKnight
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Lidstone McKnight
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Lidstone McKnight
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Lidstone McKnight
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Lidstone McKnight
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 614 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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