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Military service
Service number:
R/106035
Age:
30
Rank:
Sergeant (Air Observer)
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
March 28, 1912
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
May 13, 1941
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
July 6, 1942
Cerrig, Breckonshire
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot A. (C. of E.). Joint grave 5619.
Additional information
Son of James McAuley and Agnes (nee McCricick) Yuill, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Additional citations
Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Sergeant (Air Observer) Kenneth Ferguson Yuill
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Sergeant (Air Observer) Kenneth Ferguson Yuill is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant (Air Observer) Kenneth Ferguson Yuill 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
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Hereford Cemetery
Air Observer Sgt. Kenneth Yuill was training on #22 Operational Training Unit. Wellington aircraft was carrying practice bombs and reconnaissance flares when It flew into some low cloud and crashed a few feet from the summit of a Mountain at Cerric, Breconshire.<P> He is buried in the Hereford Cemetery, Herefordshire, England. The other crew members were <P> F.S. E. E. Mittell<BR> F.S. J. B. Kemp<BR> Sgt. J. P. Hayes<BR> Sgt. H. C. Beatty.<P> From They Shall Grow Not Old: Les Allison, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Inc.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant (Air Observer) Kenneth Ferguson Yuill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant (Air Observer) Kenneth Ferguson Yuill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant (Air Observer) Kenneth Ferguson Yuill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant (Air Observer) Kenneth Ferguson Yuill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant (Air Observer) Kenneth Ferguson Yuill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant (Air Observer) Kenneth Ferguson Yuill
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 126 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HEREFORD CEMETERY Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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