Military service
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Dispatched to the United Kingdom on 20 January 1942. He was commissioned on 22 April 1943. Died of injuries sustained in aircraft accident at Bamrauli airfield in India, which took the lives of ten other passengers and crew. Two were injured. The aircraft `FK.584 -was a Hudson VI twin-engine transport.
Pilot Officer Walsh is commemorated on the Vars Cenotaph 1939-45. The plaque inscription reads: 'They died that we might live'.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial Plaque
Vars Cenotaph, Ontario -
Vars Cenotaph, Ontario
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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
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Plaque on Vars ON. cenotaph. -
Memorial
Plaque of William Clayton Walsh on one of the posts infront of Vars ON cenotaph. -
Cenotaph
Vars ON cenotaph re-dedicated Sept 18, 2011 with 12 posts added in front honouring the 12 soldiers mentioned on the cenotaph. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 224 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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