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Military service
Service number:
R/68121
Age:
28
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
57 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
June 9, 1913
Asansol, Bengal, India
Enlistment:
June 27, 1940
London, Ontario
Death:
October 12, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 102-105.
Additional information
Adopted son of William Price Byers and Charlotte Maria (nee Forster) Byers, of Stratford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William Harold Stanley Byers
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Medal
Memorial Cross reverse showing naming -
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM HAROLD STANLEY BYERS
Photo of Sgt. William Harold Stanley Byers. Among one of the first Canadians to die in the Second World War. A grateful Natuon thanks you for your sacrifice, brave Airman. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Harold Stanley Byers is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Harold Stanley Byers is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Photo of WILLIAM HAROLD STANLEY BYERS
Parents William and Lottie Byers with William. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Harold Stanley Byers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Harold Stanley Byers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Harold Stanley Byers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Harold Stanley Byers
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 25 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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