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Military service
Service number:
J/10642
Age:
25
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
458 Sqdn.
Enlistment:
January 1, 1941
Death:
July 13, 1943
Mediterranean Ocean
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10, Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Charles Hailstone, and Annie Hailstone, of Regina, Saskatchewan.
The province of Saskatchewan honoured Flying Officer Hailstone by naming a Lake in his honour.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer William Charles Hailstone
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Group Photo
20 March 1943 - Both these lads were in the transportation business before the war. At the left is P/O John Diggins of Mulgrave, New Brunswick, former C.N.R. employee and at the right, F/O Bill Hailstone of Regina, who worked for the Greyhound Bus Company. They are still in the transportation business but of a slightly different kind. Today, flying from Malta, they transport torpedos to make life unpleasant for German and Italian supply ships in the Mediterranean. Hailstone is a pilot and Diggins an observer in 458 RAAF (Australian) torpedo bomber squadron flying from Malta. -
Photo of WILLIAM CHARLES HAILSTONE
AC2 WILLIAM CHARLES HAILSTONE - June 1941 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post July 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post April 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Charles Hailstone
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Charles Hailstone
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Charles Hailstone
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer William Charles Hailstone
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 166 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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