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Military service
Service number:
R/105725
Age:
27
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
426 Sqdn.
Death:
February 19, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 180.
Additional information
Son of James D. and Mary P. Ferrier, of Sedgewick, Alberta, Canada.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panels - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Entrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Monument
This photograph, taken in the summer of 2006, depicts a civilian headstone commemorating the death of 27 year old W/O 2 Roy Wilson Ferrier.<P> According to various sources (including lostbombers.co.uk), Ferrier and the rest of his 426 Squadron crew were assigned to attack Wilhelmshaven on the night of 19/20 Feb 1943.<P> Their aircraft, Vickers Wellington Mk.III S/N BJ919, disappeared without a trace. 426 Squadron had begun operations less than two months earlier.<P> Warrant Officer Ferrier is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial in the United Kingdom. -
Sedgewick Memorial
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Inscription
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Memorial
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Roy Wilson Ferrier
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 158 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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