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Military service
Service number:
J/92897
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
137 Sqdn.
Birth:
December 16, 1922
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
September 20, 1941
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
December 26, 1944
Schleiden, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 250.
Additional information
Son of Walter Wilson & Dorothy Edith ( née Longmire) Flett of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Brother of Sarah Ann. Participated in hockey, tennis, swimming, baseball, handball and model assembly. Attended Halifax Academy and St. Mary's College.
Additional citations
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, and Clasp, Operational Wings posthumously awared Feb 11, 1947
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer William Arthur Flett
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Document
Circumstances of crash, LAC, Ottawa
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Arthur Flett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 305 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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