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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
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Grave marker
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
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.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone
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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Grave marker
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Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands
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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.
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant William Maurice Popplestone 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
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 107 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HARLINGEN GENERAL CEMETERY Netherlands
Harlingen, a town and port on the seaboard of the Waddenzee 38 kilometres west of Leeuwarden and 28 kilometres north-west of Sneek, is the port for the Frisian Islands of Vlieland and Terschelling. The HARLINGEN GENERAL CEMETERY is on the northern outskirts of the town, about 1 kilometre from the station. The British plot is to the left of the main path in the south-western part of the cemetery.
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