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Military service
Service number:
R/80033
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
114 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
March 26, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot E. Row 1. Grave 3.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. R. J. Wallace, of Pilot Mound, Manitoba. Nephew of Mrs. C. J. Zimmerrman, of Pilot Mound.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
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The crew of Blenheim Z8307
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Grave Marker
Grave marker -
Cemetery
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.<P> Two Blenheims were lost on this operation. Z7307 was airborne 2140 from West Raynham for an Intruder sortie over Soesterberg Airfield. The aircraft was shot down by a night-fighter, crashing 2357 into the Waddenzee N of Wieringen, Holland. F/S (P) W.M.Popplestone and P/O (AG) C. E. White, RAF, are buried in the Harlingen General Cemetery. P/O W. G. F. Hawkins has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. -
Photo of WILLIAM MAURICE POPPLESTONE
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 107 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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