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Military service
Service number:
R/125792
Age:
27
Rank:
Leading Aircraftman
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
June 20, 1915
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Enlistment:
September 9, 1941
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
June 20, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 9. Range 5. Grave 5.
Additional information
Son of Benito and Carmen Oquendo, of New York City.
Digital gallery of Leading Aircraftman William Caesar Oquendo
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Memorial
Our Lady of the Airways Chapel 337 Breadner Boulevard, Ottawa has a stained glass window dedicated to the members of RCAF Station Uplands who gave their lives in the Second World War. With input from various sources, so far there were 49 deaths of service personnel that were stationed at Uplands.
Digital gallery of
Leading Aircraftman William Caesar Oquendo
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 104 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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