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Military service
Service number:
J/89732
Age:
21
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
75 Sqdn.
Birth:
June 26, 1922
Oyen, Alberta
Enlistment:
July 30, 1942
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
May 22, 1944
Duisberg, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 252.
Additional information
Son of John and Edith (nee Gale) Reid, of Rocky Montain House, Alberta. Brother of Edith, John and Signalman Thomas Alexander Walter Reid, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, killed in action 17 January 1945.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, the 7 January 1947.
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Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid
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Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid
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Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid
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Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid
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Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid
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Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid
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Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid
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Pilot Officer William Ferguson Reid
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 425 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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