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Military service
Service number:
R/91658
Age:
25
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
# 6 Operational Training Unit
Birth:
February 1, 1917
Alameda, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
April 7, 1941
Saskatchewan
Death:
March 17, 1942
In the sea, coast of Redcar, England
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot O. Row N. Grave 14.
Additional information
Son of Andrew A. Walker and Helen E. Walker, of Kisbey, Saskatchewan. Brother of Flying Officer Bruce Douglas Walker who was killed in action on August 8, 1944 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force
The government of Saskatchewan honoured Flight Sergeant Walker by naming Walker River, which flows northeast to the Geikie River northeast of Big Sand Lake, in his memory.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William Archibald Walker
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 122 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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THORNABY-ON-TEES CEMETERY Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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