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Son of Claude W. Ward and Mary J. Ward, of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Harold Claude Ward
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Claude Ward
From the Sydney Academy Memorial booklet, published by the Student's Assembly in memory of former students who served during the Second World War. The original pictures were supplied by the Sydney Post-Record and the booklet was compiled by Jack Wilcox, class of 1946 and Donald Trivett, class of 1947.<p>
Additional Information courtesy of Floyd Williston:<br>F/Sgt. Harold Claude Ward, age 21, was killed on August 23, 1943, at 42 OTU, Ashbourne, when the Whitley aircraft (T4339), in which he was wireless air-gunner, crashed in the River Seven, at Gold Cliffe, South-East of Newport, England. He is buried in the Old Cemetery, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.
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From the Sydney Academy Memorial booklet, published by the Student's Assembly in memory of former students who served during the Second World War. The original pictures were supplied by the Sydney Post-Record and the booklet was compiled by Jack Wilcox, class of 1946 and Donald Trivett, class of 1947.<p> Additional Information courtesy of Floyd Williston:<br>F/Sgt. Harold Claude Ward, age 21, was killed on August 23, 1943, at 42 OTU, Ashbourne, when the Whitley aircraft (T4339), in which he was wireless air-gunner, crashed in the River Seven, at Gold Cliffe, South-East of Newport, England. He is buried in the Old Cemetery, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 224 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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GLOUCESTER CEMETERY Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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