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Military service
Service number:
J/17662
Age:
24
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
432 Sqdn.
Birth:
January 12, 1919
Chatham, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 23, 1941
London, Ontario
Death:
July 4, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Row A. Grave 14.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Mary Taylor of Chatham, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer William Howard Taylor
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Photo of William Taylor
From the book; …and they never came back. The story of the C. V. S (Chatham Vocational School) students who fought and died in World War 11. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me, with the permission of the author Peter N. Stanojevic. -
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Eyewitness account of the Crash -
Photo of WILLIAM HOWARD TAYLOR
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
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Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer William Howard Taylor is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer William Howard Taylor is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Howard Taylor
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Howard Taylor
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Howard Taylor
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 219 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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