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Military service
Service number:
R/129349
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
102 Sqdn.
Birth:
March 18, 1919
Nobel, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 4, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
December 7, 1942
The North Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 104.
Additional information
Son of Anson and Gladys Hawke of Nobel, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William Edward Hawke
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Group Photo
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Edward Hawke is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Edward Hawke 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 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 80 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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