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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
Ontario
Death:
June 20, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 9. Range 5. Grave 5.
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Son of Benito and Carmen Oquendo, of New York City.
Digital gallery of Leading Aircraftman William Caesar Oquendo
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 104 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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