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Military service
Service number:
R/92790
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
419 Sqdn.
Death:
January 9, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 185.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
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Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy is also 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 -
Photo of William Gorman Murphy
William Gorman Murphy (Air/Gnr (Rear) Fl/Sgt. R92790 Age 20 Killed) and crew (in bomber jackets) with ground crew on the wing of their Wellington bomber BJ886. The Wellington had a crew of five. Below are listed the names of the crew of 7 - two were added- when they transitioned to a new Halifax bomber. I could not positively ID the other four crew sitting on the wing so have included all names of the Halifax crew - all lost on their first operation in the Halifax. Pilot: W/O II. Frank Harvey Barker R103678 Fl/Eng: Sgt. Ronald Edmund Sackville-Golden 967831 RAFVR Age 26. Killed Nav: Fl/Sgt. Harvey Adam Dunn R/99798 Age 28. Killed Air Bmr: Fl/Sgt. Vincent Armand Hugli R/90778 Age 26. Killed W/Op/Air/Gnr: W/O II. Donald Alexander Watson R/74057 Age 22. Killed Air/Gnr (M/Upper) Sgt. William Douglas Cameron R/140390 Age 20. Killed
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Gorman Murphy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 197 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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