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Military service
Service number:
R/ 193025
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
619 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
July 19, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 1.
Additional information
Son of William and Rosa Birks. Husband of Agnes Birks, of Toronto, ON.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks
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Photo of William Sidney Atkinson Birks
Enlisted 1942 in the R.C.A.F. and was "winged" at Crumlin, Ont. in September 1943, lost in action over France July 18, 1944. -
Grave Marker
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Album Cover
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks 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 -
Id Card
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM SIDNEY ATKINSON BIRKS
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM SIDNEY ATKINSON BIRKS
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM SIDNEY ATKINSON BIRKS
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Record of Service
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Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 250 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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AUGER-ST. VINCENT COMMUNAL CEMETERY Oise, France
Auger-St. Vincent is a village and commune 56 kilometres south-east of Beauvais and 8 kilometres west of Crepy-en-Valois. The cemetery, which lies on the outskirts of the village on the road to Nanteul, contains the graves of 6 airmen, 4 belonging to the Royal Air Force and 2 to the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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