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Flight Sergeant James William Billing

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Military service

Service number: R/110092
Age: 22
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 487 (R.N.Z.A.F.) Sqdn
Death: March 2, 1943

Burial/memorial information

FELTWELL (ST. NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD
Grave reference: Row D. Grave 4.
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Son of Ernest Albert and Gertrude Billing, of Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 136 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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FELTWELL (ST. NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD Norfolk, United Kingdom

Feltwell is a village and parish in the west of Norfolk, 5.5 miles north-west of Brandon. The nearest railway station is Lakenham, 3 miles to the south. The church of St. Nicholas stands at the north-western boundary of the village. The churchyard is some 31 acres in size, and contains war graves of both world wars. The 1914-1918 burials number only six, and are scattered, but most of the 1939-1945 War graves are together in the north-western corner. Here, during the early months of the war, the Parochial Church Council set aside ground for the burial of airmen from Feltwell Royal Air Force Station, and this is now the War Graves Plot. It is enclosed on two sides by hedges of thorn and on the other two sides by hedges of English yew, with the entrance on the south. The Cross of Sacrifice is at the south-western corner, and the graves are in level mown grass with continuous flower borders along the rows of headstones. There are in this churchyard the graves of 48 servicemen who died during the 1939-45 War. All save six of these men are airmen and thirty nine of the graves are in the War Graves Plot. The plot also contains two graves which are not war graves. A civilian, the wife of an airman at the R.A.F. Station. was buried there in 1941; as was an airman from the station who died in 1948.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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